adgestu
Dictionary entries
- Entry →adgero, adgerere, adgessi, adgestus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
heap/cover up over, pile/build up, erect; accumulate; intensify, exaggerate;
abl. sg. - Entry →adgestus, adgestus:
Masculine · Noun · 4th declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
piling up; act of bringing; earthen bank, terrace; sprinkling earth over body;
abl. sg.dat. sg.
Examples
Libri XI-XIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...intraveris. Praeteri istos gradus divitum et magno adgestu suspensa vestibula: non in praerupto tantum istic stabis..."Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...locus ipse castrorum placebat, late prospectans, tuto copiarum adgestu, florentissimis pone tergum municipiis; simul conloquia cum Vitellianis decem..."
