congestu
Dictionary entries
- Entry →congero, congerere, congessi, congestus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
collect, bring/get together, amass; heap/pile up/on; build, construct; compile;; consign (to one's stomach); assemble/crowd together; give repeatedly, shower;
abl. sg. - Entry →congestus, congestus:
Masculine · Noun · 4th declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
action of bringing together/assembling/heaping; heap/pile/mass; big collection;
abl. sg.dat. sg.
Examples
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...tellure uiros. uix tollere miles membra ualet multo congestu pulueris haerens. alligat et stantis adfusae magnus harenae agger..."Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...uenerunt, multoque concitatior est auaritia in magnarum opum congestu conlocata, ut flammae infinito acrior..."de Constantia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...curia serio ludunt, illi in litoribus harenae congestu simulacra domuum excitant, hi ut magnum aliquid agentes in lapidibus..."Liber X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...arbitros reformidet, extemporalis actio auditorum frequentia, ut miles congestu signorum, excitatur. XVII. Namque et difficiliorem cogitationem exprimit..."Liber XV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...aquarum regio est, castella fontibus imposita; quosdam rivos congestu harenae abdidit. Ea dum a Corbulone tuendae Syriae parantur..."Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...dehonestamentis mire gaudebat. nec coloniae modo aut municipia congestu copiarum, sed ipsi cultores arvaque maturis iam frugibus..."Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...pulcherrimam hanc urbem domibus et tectis et congestu lapidum stare creditis? muta ista et inanima intercidere ac reparari..."
