• CROWD

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• turba (an unorganized mass of people, especially of low rank, hence (The words are found in this connection and order.) vulgus et turba; then also of things): caterva (anybody of men who form one irregular whole, Vid: Nep., Chabr., 1, 2: conducticiae catervae, in opposition to the well-disciplined phalanx): grex (litterally, a herd, then of a number of persons; also used as a term of contempt, as in Cic., Rosc., Am., 32, 89: ego forsitan propter multitudinem patronorum in grege annumerer): frequentia (more in the sense of an assembled body, as thronging a place; also of things): multitudo (any multitude): vis (a great number; e.g., of animals): concursus (a running together of people, e.g., hominum in forum): a great crowd, magna frequentia; magna multitudo: to be attended home by an immense crowd, domum reduci cum maxima frequentia ac multitudine (Cic.): a dense crowd, turba conferta: to get into a dense crowd, *turba conferta premi: to find one’s self in the crowd, in turba consistere: to press through a thick crowd, penetrare per densam turbam: a noisy, tumultuous crowd, tumultuosa turba: he stood in the thickest crowd, in confertissima turba stetit: to throw one’s self into the midst of the crowd, in mediam turbam se conjicere: to struggle with or against the crowd, luctari in turba (Hor.); keep the crowd back! submove turbam! (i. e., to make room, especially as order given to the lictors to make room for the consul): the tribunes ordered the crowd to keep back or to make room, tribuni submoverunt populum (sc. per lictores, Liv.): to be raised above the crowd, longe ab imperitorum intelligentia sensuque sejunctum esse (in an intellectual point of view); also plus sapere, quam ceteri: an uneducated or ignorant crowd, multitudo iniperita or imperitorum.
• Of inanimate objects, acervus: cumulus [SYN. in HEAP]: frequentia (e.g., sepulcrorum): silva (e.g., rerum et sententiarum; silva observationum; it can, however, only be used of intellectual objects): nubes (cloud; but not to be used unless the image of a “cloud” can be kept up; hence not nubes exemplorum, but multa exempla, or magna copia exemplorum, especially if to be used for a purpose): in the crowd of laws that fill our statute-book, in hoc immenso aliarum super alias acervatarum legum cumulo. ☞ If a large, but at the same time indefinite number of things is to be expressed, “sexcenti” (litrally, six hundred) is sometimes used in Latin; e.g., I received at once a whole crowd of letters, sexcentas litteras uno tempore accepi, meaning an unusual number of letters.

2. v. TR., coartare: coangustare (Hirt.): confereire (of both men and things): constipare (Cic.) condensare (e.g., his ranks, aciem, crowd): constringere (to bind together, that it may take up little room): peranguste refereire (in aliqua re: crowd subjects, arguments, etc., into a small compass): comprimere (to press together; persons and things; e.g., ordines; versus ordinibus, Ov.): astringere (in a speech): To crowd so many men together, tantum numerum hominum constipare (e.g., in agrum campanum, Cic.): so crowded that they can not turn round, ita coartati, ut ne versari quidem possint (after Col. 8, 7, 2): to crowd one another, urgere se; coangustari (Hirt.): they were crowding each other, sese ipsi premebant (Liv.): to crowd sail, plenis velis navigare; passis velis vehi: To crowd many subjects into one book, plura coartare in unum librum; also contrahere (e.g., in paucos libros): crowded, confertus: a very crowded theatre, theatrum celebritate refertissimum.

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• v. INTR., confluere (to crowd together in a mass): concurrere (to run together hastily): cogi: se congregare or congregari (to assemble, to meet): artius coire or cogi: frequentes convenire (if in great masses): acervari: cumulari: crescere (to increase, to wax, of a mass of persons and things): to crowd together to one place, se congregare ac condensare in locum unum (Varr.): fresh business is perpetually crowding upon me, negotiis veteribus nova accrescunt: majus in dies occupationum agmen extenditur (Plin., Ep. 2, 8, 3): misfortunes are crowding upon me, malum malo additur (after Liv., 1, 3).
• PROPR. To crowd in or into; influere: infundi (to pour in, of a multitude): irruere: irrumpere (burst in) perrumpere (violently burst through all obstacles): invadere (PROP., of an enemy into a town, harbour, etc.; and IMPROP. of evils, etc.).
• IMPROPR. Crowd upon (of things crowding on anybody): se offerre: objici (e.g., animo); se inculcare (e.g., oculis. All three of imaginations, recollections, thoughts that crowd upon us or press themselves upon our mind; se inculcare, of imaginary objects that present themselves, as it were, to our eyes). Many thoughts are crowding upon me, multa simul cogito.
• To crowd through, penetrare (general term per locum. ad locum, ad locum usque): penetrare per (densam) turbam. perrumpere (burst through): The enemy were crowding through the narrow gates, hostes angusto exitu portarum sese ipsi premebant.