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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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S&H Smith & Hall (3)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• heap (subs.):
      1. 1. ăcervus (strictly, rising to a point; as a h. of grain): a h. consists of grains like itself, a. ex sui generis granis efficitur, Cic. Tusc. 5, 15, 45: a h. of silver (lit. brass) and gold, aeris a. et auri, Hor.: h.s of corpses, acervi corporum, Cic. Cat. 3, 10, 24. Adv. acervatim, in h.s: Lucr.: Varr.: Col.
      2. 2. cŭmŭlus (a vast h.; strictly, of rounded form: cf. Virg. Aen. 1, 105, insequitur cumulo praeruptus aquae mons): a corpse buried under h.s of slain, corpus obrutum superstratis [caesorum] cumulis, Liv. 10, 29, extr.: v. mass.
      3. 3. agger, ĕris, m. (of soil, stones, snow, etc.): v. mound, drift.
      4. 4. strues, is, f. (of things piled confusedly): h.s of corpses, s. corporum, Tac. H. 3, 83: Liv.: v. pile.
      5. 5. congĕries, ēi (any mass of things brought together): Tac.: Plin. See also multitude, accumulation.
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• heap (v.):
    1. I. Lit.: to raise a heap: usu. foll. by up, together:
      1. 1. ăcervo, 1 (to form an acervus: v. heap, subs. 1: rare): Plin. The comp. coacervo (to h. together) is more freq.: dead bodies thrown down and h.'d together, dejecta et coacervata cadavera, Caes. B. G. 2, 27: sometimes foll. by cumulo, cumulis, Liv. 22, 7, etc.
      2. 2. aggĕro, 1 (to raise a mound): to h. up soil round (a tree), terram circa ag., Col. Arb. 28: to h. up corpses, cadavera ag., Virg. The comp. exaggero (to h. up high), is rare: Plin.
      3. 3. cŭmŭlo, 1 (to pile together; more freq. in fig. sense: v. infr. and to accumulate): more fully, cum. in [magnum] acervum, Liv. 45, 33, init.: Curt. Comp. accumulo, esp. of heaping soil to the roots of trees, Col.; also fig., v. infr.
      4. 4. congĕro, ssi, stum, 3 (to pile in a mass): v. to pile.
    2. II. To amass riches, etc.: cŭmŭlo, accŭmŭlo, cŏăcervo, collĭgo, congĕro: v. to accumulate.
    3. III. To heap reproaches, etc., upon:
      1. 1. congĕro, ssi, stum, 3 (in abundance; with acc. and dat., or more freq. acc. and in with acc.): to h. blows upon the dead, plagas mortuo c., Phaedr.: to h. favours upon any one, beneficia in aliquem c., Liv. 42., 11: let all (evils) be h.'d upon a single individual, congerantur in unum omnia, Cic. Tusc. 5, 40, 117: to h. abuse on any one, maledicta in aliquem c., Cic.: Suet.
      2. 2. ingĕro, ssi, stum, 3 (same constr. as preced.): to h. abuse upon any one, convicia alicui ing., Hor. S. 1, 5, 11; ing. probra, Liv. 2, 45, med. also with in and acc. (instead of dat.): Liv. 3, 68, med.: Pl.
      3. 3. ŏnĕro, 1 (with acc. and abl.): to h. injuries on any one, aliquem injuriis o., Ter. And. 5, 1, 8: v. to load.
    4. IV. To add: addo, dĭdi, dĭtum, 3: to h. one crime upon another, in scelus addere scelus, Ov. M. 8, 484.
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• snow-drift, -heap: nĭveus agger: the land unshapely with s.-s, terra aggeribus niveis informis, Virg. G. 3, 354. Perh. too, *nivium moles vento cumulata, nives vento cumulatae (Georg.).
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• HEAP
1. s. acervus (a heap of things brought together, and laid on one another, usually of the same kind; also of a heap of dead bodies): congeries (a number of things of different kinds brought together and laid one on another without respect to the height; ☞ congestus prae- and post-classical): strages (a number of things hurled upon the ground, especially of corpses, arms, etc.; likeivise without respect of height): strues (a heap of things piled in layers, so far as they may be placed or are placed over each other in a certain order): cumulus (PROP., a heap that comes up to the full measure. With acervus, the difference lies in the quantity; with congeries, in the disorderly lying on each other; with strages, in the lying on the ground; with strues, in the lying in layers; in cumulus, the arched form and the superabundance, as Liv., 3, 34, 6, in hoc immenso aliarum super alias acervatarum legum cumulo): multitudo: vis: copia (general term, multitude, great number, with this difference, multitudo denotes any multitude, without any other idea; vis brings the great quantity prominently forward and copia, the multitude in respect of the use to be made; hence it cannot be used of persons unless they are to be considered as an instrument or means, as armatorum, virorum fortium copia). A confused heap, turba (PROP. of men, but also of animals and things, arborum, negotiorum, inanium verborum, etc.)
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  • v. acervare: coacervare (to make a heap of anything, to heap together or upon one another): aggerare: exaggerare (to heap up, to heap up high; in prose, post-Augustan): cumulare: accumulare (the former, to heap up to the full measure; the latter, to be always adding to a heap; cumulare, also, figuratively = constantly to increase): augere (to increase): addere aliquid alicui rei (to be constantly adding to anything): congerere (figuratively, to bring together or utter as in heaps; e.g., reproaches upon anybody, maledicta in aliquem). To heap crime upon crime, scelus sceleri addere: to heap benefit upon benefit, beneficia priora posterioribus cumulare: to heap victory upon victory, victoriam victoriae addere (after Liv., 1, 3): to heap anything upon anybody, congerere aliquid in aliquem (general term, good and bad things); onerare aliquem aliqua re (with something unpleasant; to load with anything): ornare aliquem aliqua re (with something pleasant and honorable; to adorn, honor, etc., with anything; e.g., posts of honor, etc.).
  • To heap up, cumulare: acervare (to heap): accumulare: coacervare: construere (to heap up, heap together, accumulate; e.g., money, treasures: one who does this, accumulator opum, Tac., Ann., 3, 30, 1; accumulare, mostly †; once only in Cic., auget, addit, accumulat; in Plin., often of heaping up earth round the roots of trees): aggerare (to form into a heap, bones, ossa). To heap tip money, pecunias coacervare; acervos numorum construere: to heap up riches, opes exaggerare (Phaedrus, 3, prol. 25): to heap up earth round the roots of trees, accumulare terram (Plin.): to heap up earth about a tree, aggerare arbore (Col.); adaggerare (Cato): to be heaped up, cumulari, accumulari; crescere (to increase).