exaggerate Copy link Outline 1. augeo, xi, ctum, 22. expr. by mājor [in majus] and a verb • exaggerate: 1. augeo, xi, ctum, 2: in e.ing numbers (of Valerius), in augendo numero, Liv. 38, 23: some have e.d it beyond belief, superjecere quidam augendo fidem, Liv. 10, 30 (in Cic. augere usu. signifies to heighten and set off by language) [esp. with amplificare], rather than to falsify: cf. de Or. 1, 21, 94). 2. expr. by mājor [in majus] and a verb: e.ing the revolt of the allies, defectionem sociorum in majus extollentes, Liv. 28, 31: in the Senate everything was e.d, apud Senatum omnia in majus celebrata sunt, Tac. A. 13, 8: to be e.d by distance (of reports), ex longinquo in majus audiri, Tac. A. 4, 23. Simly, majora vero, (Tac. H. 2, 70), are e.d statements, as distinguished from what is altogether true or false. Phr.: to e. facts, excedere actae rei modum, egredi veritatem, Plin. Ep. 7, 33, fin.; leges historiae negligere ... plus quam concedit veritas dicere, cf. Cic. Fam. 5, 12, 1. (N.B.--Not exaggero, which is to heighten, exalt: cf. Cic. de Or. 3, 27, 105.)