COLLECT Copy link • COLLECT 1. to gather, legere: colligere (together): conferre: comportare (to bring or carry together): conquirere (to seek and collect from various places, with accessary notion of zeal): congerere in unum locum (to one place): coacervare (in a heap): to collect treasures, money. etc., pecuniam or opes undique conquirere (but not pecuniam cogere, which, in Cic., Verr., 2, 57, 141, conveys the meaning of extorting money): conficere (also of money, etc., stronger term): to collect an army or troops, copias, or exercitum parare, or comparare: to collect the troops at one place, copias in unum locum cogere or contrabere: to collect one’s thoughts, cogitationes suas ad unam rem dirigere (after Cic., Acad., 2, 20, 66): animum cogitationemque colligere: to collect one’s self, se or animum colligere: animum recipere: ad se redire: not to be able to collect one’s self, sui, or mentis, or animi non compotem esse; minus compotem esse sui; mente vix constare: non apud se esse (to be beside one’s self): se cohibere (restrain one’s self): iram reprimere (repress one’s anger). To collect money (officially), accipere: recipere: exigere. Vid: above the meaning of pecuniam cogere (i. e., to extort): pecunias imperatas exigere (the war tax): of taxes. etc. (in general), vectigalia. etc., exigere. INTR., to collect, coacervari: augeri: crescere (PROP., to be collected in one heap, to increase, grow: the latter, e.g., of water) To come together (of several persons) cogi: se congregare: congregari: convenire: coire (in a mass), confluere: frequentes convenire (in great haste), convolare. To infer or conclude; vid those words. 2. of money [Vid: COLLECTION]. Church prayer; Vid: PRAYER