adcolo

ac-cŏlo ( adc. ), cŏlui, cultum, 3, v. a., to dwell by or near, constr. with acc. or absol.

(α).

With acc.: Histrum fluvium, Naev ap. Cic. Or. 45, 152 (Rib. Trag. Rel. p. 14): arcem, Att. ap. Non. 357, 14 (ib. p. 202): illum locum, * Cic. Rep. 6, 18 fin.:

viam,

Liv. 28, 13, 4:

Macedoniam,

id. 39, 46, 7:

Pontum,

Tac. H. 3, 47:

Nilum,

Verg. G. 4, 288; cf.:

Rhenum,

Tac. H. 1, 51:

nives Haemi,

Ov. F. 1, 390:

Capitolī saxum,

Verg. A. 9, 448 al.; hence, pass.:

fluvius crebris oppidis accolitur,

Plin. 3, 1, 30, § 9.—

(β).

Absol.:

vicine Apollo, qui aedibus Propinquus nostris adcolis,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 1, 4 (the dat. aedibus belongs to propinquus, not to adcolis, as Prisc. p. 1203 P. seems to have construed).— Poet.: accolere vitem, to be a cultivating neighbor of it, Cat. 62, 55 dub. (Müller reads coluere.)