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strŭo , xi, ctum, 3, v. a. root στορ; Gr. στρώννυμι, to spread; cf. Sanscr. upa-star, to make ready; and v. sterno,
I.to place by or upon each other; to pile up, arrange, etc.
I. Lit.
A. In gen. (rare but class.; cf. “condo, compono): quasi structa et nexa verbis, etc.,Cic. Or. 41, 140: “lateres, qui super musculo struantur,Caes. B. C. 2, 10: “altaque congestos struxisse ad sidera montes,Ov. M. 1, 153: “arbores in pyram,id. ib. 9, 231: “frugem ordine,Cic. Sen. 15, 51: “avenas,Ov. M. 1, 677: “ordine longo penum,Verg. A. 1, 704; Sil. 11, 279; hence, poet., transf.: “altaria donis,Verg. A. 5, 54: “acervum,Hor. S. 1, 1, 35: “congeriem armorum,Tac. A. 2, 22: “opes, rem,to heap up, accumulate, Petr. 120, 85; Pers. 2, 44: PEDEM, to heap up steps, i. e. to flee: SI CALVITVR PEDEMVE STRVIT MANVM ENDOIACITO, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Fest. 313 Müll.—Absol.: aliae (apes) struunt, aliae poliunt, aliae suggerunt, pile up (the comb), Plin. 11, 10, 10, § 22. —
B. In partic.
1. To make by joining together; to build, erect, fabricate, make, form, construct (syn. aedifico): “fornacem bene struito ... lateribus summam (fornacem) struito,Cato, R. R. 38, 1 and 3: per speluncas saxis structas, Poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 37 (Trag. Rel. p. 208 Rib.); imitated by Lucr. 6, 195; cf.: “templa saxo structa vetusto,Verg. A. 3, 84: “moenia saxo,Ov. M. 6, 573: “moenia,Verg. A. 5, 811: “domos,Hor. C. 2, 18, 19: “pyras,Verg. A. 11, 204: “ingentem pyram,id. ib. 6, 215; Luc. 3, 240: “navem,Val. Fl. 5, 295: “tubas,to make, Prop. 4 (5), 3, 20.cubilia,Luc. 9, 841: “convivia,to get ready, prepare, Tac. A. 15, 37 et saep.— Absol.: “reticulata structura, quā frequentissime Romae struunt,Plin. 36, 22, 51, § 172. —Part. perf., subst.: “saxorum structa,masonry, Lucr. 4, 361.—
2. With the idea of order predominating, to set in order, arrange: “copias ante frontem castrorum struit,arranges, draws up in rank and file, Caes. B. C. 3, 37; so, “aciem,Liv. 9, 31; 8, 8; Verg. A. 9, 42: omnes armatos in campo, Liv 42, 51.—
II. Trop.
A. In gen., to join together, compound, compose: “ex praepositione et duobus vocabulis dure videtur struxisse Pacuvius, Nerei repandirostrum,Quint. 1, 5, 67.—
B. In partic.
1. To prepare something detrimental; to cause, occasion; to devise, contrive, instigate, etc. (very freq., esp. in Cic.): “struunt sorores Atticae dirum nefas, Poët. ap. Mar. Vict. p. 2596 P. (Trag. Rel. p. 272 Rib.): aliquid calamitatis struere et moliri,Cic. Clu. 64, 178: “sycophantias,Plaut. As. 1, 1, 57: “num me fefellit hosce id struere?Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 3: “sollicitudinem sibi,Cic. Att. 5, 21, 3: “odium in alios,id. de Or. 2, 51, 208: “insidias alicui,Liv. 23, 17: “consilia recuperandi regni,id. 2, 3; Tac. A. 2, 65 fin.; Ov. M. 1, 198: periculum ruinae, Caecin. ap. Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 3: “pericula alicui,Sen. Ep. 10, 2: “mortem alicui,Tac. A. 4, 10 fin.: “crimina et accusatores,id. ib. 11, 12; cf.: ultroque struebantur qui monerent perfugere ad Germaniae exercilus, id. ib. 4, 67: “controversiam de nomine,Auct. Her. 2, 28, 45: “causas,Tac. A. 2, 42: “quid struit?Verg. A. 4, 235: “quid struis?id. ib. 4, 271; Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 6.—
3. To fit out, provide with (late Lat.): “quot steriles utriusque naturae infructuosis genitalibus structi,Tert. Res. Carn. 61: “sermo autem spiritu structus est,id. adv. Prax. 8; id. Verg. Vel. 9.—Hence, structē , adv., orderly, regularly, methodically (very rare): “historiam scripsere Sallustius structe, Pictor incondite,Front. Ep. ad Ver. 1: “quae nobis causa est structius prodeundi?with more embellishment, more ornately, Tert. Cult. Fem. 11.
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