denso

denso, āvi, ātum, 1, and (less freq.) denseo, no perf., ētum, 2 (cf. Prisc. p. 837 P.; Charis. p. 233 ib. The MSS. often confound the two forms; densare appears to be critically certain in Liv. and Quint.; densere act. only denset, Verg. A. 11, 650; imp. densete, id. ib. 12, 264:

densebant,

Lucr. 5, 491:

denserent,

Tac. A. 2, 14; also active forms, Apul. Mund. p. 61, 13; Prud. Cath. 5, 53 al.; Sil. 4, 159;

gerund, densendo,

Lucr. 6, 482; pass. inf. parag. denserier, id. 1, 395; 647:

densetur,

Ov. M. 14, 369 al.:

densentur,

Hor. Od. 1, 28, 19; Verg. A. 7, 794, and other forms in Verg.; cf.

Wagner,

Verg. G. 1, 248.—See also addenso and condenso), v. a., to make thick, to press together, thicken (not in Cic. and Caes.).

I.

Lit.:

Juppiter uvidus austris Densat, erant quae rara modo, et, quae densa, relaxat,

Verg. G. 1, 419 (paraphrased:

densatus et laxatus aer,

Quint. 5, 9, 16 ); cf.:

rarum pectine denset opus,

Ov. F. 3, 820; Lucr. 1, 395:

ignem,

id. 1, 647; 656:

omnia,

id. 1, 662:

agmina,

Verg. A. 7, 794; cf.

catervas,

id. ib. 12, 264:

ordines,

Liv. 33, 8 fin.:

scutis super capita densatis,

Liv. 44, 9: funera, * Hor. Od. 1, 28, 19:

glomerata corpus in unum densatur,

Ov. M. 13, 605; cf.:

(nubes) largos in imbres,

Luc. 4, 76; Plin. 11, 41, 96, § 239:

obtenta densantur nocte tenebrae,

Verg. G. 1, 246; cf. Ov. M. 14, 369:

hastilia,

i. e. hurls thickly, Verg. A. 11, 650; cf.

ictus,

Tac. A. 2, 14:

super acervum petrarum radices ejus densabuntur,

Vulg. Job 8, 17.— Absol.:

(aestus) quasi densendo subtexit caerula nimbis,

Lucr. 6, 482.—

II.

Trop. of speech, to condense:

instandum quibusdam in partibus et densanda oratio,

Quint. 11, 3, 164:

figuras,

id. 9, 3, 101.