I.v a., to gather into a ball, to make spherical, to conglobate (in good prose).
I. Prop., constr. usu. absol., or with in and acc.; rarely with in and abl.: “mare medium locum expetens conglobatur undique aequabiliter,” Cic. N. D. 2, 45, 116: “hic (prester) rate funditur, illud (fulmen) conglobatur impetu,” Plin. 2, 49, 50, § 134; App. de Mundo, p. 62, 2.— More freq. in part. perf.: “terra ipsa in sese nutibus suis conglobata,” Cic. N. D. 2. 39, 98; so, “astra nisu suo,” id. ib. 2, 46, 117: “figura,” id. Ac. 2, 37, 118: “sanguis,” Plin. 23, 2, 28, § 59: “homo in semet,” id. 10, 64, 84, § 183.—And in tmesis: corpuscula complexa inter se conque globata, * Lucr. 2, 154.—Hence,
B. In gen., to press together in a mass, to crowd together: “apes, ut uvae, aliae ex aliis pendent conglobatae,” Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 29: “conglobato corpore in pilae modum,” Plin. 9, 46, 70, § 153: “homo in semet conglobatus,” id. 10, 64, 84, § 183.— “Freq., in the historians, of the collecting or crowding together of soldiers: uti quosque fors conglobaverat,” Sall. J. 97, 4; so, “eos Agathyrnam,” Liv. 26, 40, 17: “se in unum,” id. 8, 11, 5; cf. id. 9, 23, 16: “in ultimam castrorum partem,” id. 10, 5, 9: “in forum,” id. 5, 41, 6: “templum in quo se miles conglobaverat,” Tac. A. 14, 32: “pulsi ac fugā conglobati,” Liv. 44, 31, 9; 25, 15, 15.—Absol.: “fors conglobabat (sc. milites),” Liv. 22, 5, 7. —Also of the elephant: “conglobatae beluae,” Liv. 27, 14, 8.—*
II. Trop.: “definitiones conglobatae,” heaped together, accumulated, Cic. Part. Or. 16, 55.
