adstruo

a-strŭo ( ads-, Merk., Halm, Dinter), struxi, structum, 3, v. a., to build near or in addition to a thing, to add (mostly in prose and post-Aug.; never in Cic.).

I.

Lit.:

cum veteri adstruitur recens aedificium,

Col. 1, 5 fin.:

utrique (villae) quae desunt,

Plin. Ep. 9, 7 fin.: sicut ante secunda fortuna tot victorias adstruxerat;

ita nunc adversa destruens quae cumulaverat,

Just. 23, 3:

medicamentum adstruere,

Scrib. Comp. 227.—

II.

In gen.

A.

To add to:

adstrue formae,

Ov. A. A. 2, 119: victus ab [p. 185] eo Pharnaces vix quicquam gloriae ejus adstruxit, Vell. 2, 55:

aliquid magnificentiae,

Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 119; so,

dignitati,

Plin. Ep. 3, 2, 5:

famae,

id. ib. 4, 17, 7:

felicitati,

id. Pan. 74, 2:

alicui laudem,

id. ib. 46, 8:

alicui nobilitatem ac decus,

Tac. H. 1, 78:

consulari ac triumphalibus ornamentis praedito quid aliud adstruere fortuna poterat?

id. Agr. 44:

adstruit auditis... pavor,

Sil. 4, 8:

ut quae Neroni falsus adstruit scriptor,

ascribes, imputes, Mart. 3, 20:

ut Livium quoque priorum aetati adstruas, i.e. annumeres,

Vell. 1, 17.—

B.

To furnish with something (syn. instruo):

contignationem laterculo adstruxerunt,

covered, fastened, Caes. B. C. 2, 9.— Trop.:

aliquem falsis criminibus,

i.e. to charge, Curt. 10, 1.

► The signif.

affirmare, which Agroet. p. 2268 P., and Beda, p. 2334 P. give, is found in no Lat. author; for in Plin. 12, 18, 41, § 83, instead of adstruxerunt, it is better to read adseverant; v. Sillig ad h. l.; so also Jan.