GATHER Copy link • GATHER 1. s. (in a garment), *ruga consuta, or ruga only; or plicatura (fold). 2. v. TRANS., Collect, Vid: To gather in harvests, etc., carpere: decerpere (to pluck): destringere alicui aliquid (to strip off, tear off; e.g., leaves and berries): detrahere alicui aliquid (to take off; e.g., fruits): percipere (to gather or collect for use; e.g., the fruits of the earth, fruges; olives, fructum ex olea, Plin.): sublegere (to gather up; e.g., baccam, quae in terram decidit, Col.): demetere (PROP., of corn, frumentum, segetes; poetically, of flowers, pollice florem, Verg.). To gather the grapes, uvas legere; detrahere uvas ex arboribus: vindemiam colligere (of the general gathering; the vintage): vindemiare (post-Augustan; also, vindemiare uvas, Plin.); olives, legere oleas (Cato), olivas (Hor.), oleam stringere (to tear it off, which an old law forbade), to gather apples (garden fruits), demere or detrahere poma arboribus; legere poma ex or ab arboribus. To draw an inference, ex aliqua re colligere, concludere: hence it may be gathered, ex quo effici cogique potest (anything may be established by argument). To pucker (a dress), consuere in rugas (rugae, Plin. 35, 8, 34, etc.). 3. INTRANS., Assemble [Vid. ASSEMBLE, INTRANS.] . Fester, Vid: GATHER UP, colligere (general term, also, of taking up for the purpose of shortening, colligere togam, Martisalis): sublegere (e.g., fallen fruits, etc., Col., ; anything lying on the ground, Hor.). To gather up the stones from a field, elapidare agrum: to gather (up) the hair into a knot, capillos (in nodum) colligere. Vid: COLLECT.