adgero

1.

aggĕro ( adg- ), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [agger].

I.

Lit., to form an agger, or to heap up like an agger; hence, in gen., to heap up, pile up (cf. cumulare; only poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

aggerat cadavera,

Verg. G. 3, 556:

Laurentis praemia pugnae aggerat,

id. A. 11, 79:

ossa disjecta vel aggerata,

Tac. A. 1, 61; 1, 63.—

II.

Transf.

A.

To heap up, i. e. to augment, increase:

incenditque animum dictis atque aggerat iras,

Verg. A. 4, 197, and 11, 342:

omne promissum,

Stat. Th. 2, 198.—

B.

To fill, fill up:

spatium,

Curt. 4, 2.—

C.

Aggerare arborem, in gardening, to heap up earth around a tree in order to protect the roots, Col. 11, 2, 46.

2.

ag-gĕro ( adg- ), gessi, gestum, 3, v. a.

I.

To bear, carry, convey, bring to or toward a place; with ad or dat. (in Plaut. freq.; in the class. per. rare; in Cic. perh. only once;

more freq. in Tac.): quom eorum aggerimus bona, quin etiam ultro ipsi aggerunt ad nos,

Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 16:

mihi his aggerunda etiam est aqua,

id. Rud. 2, 5, 27; so id. Cas. 1, 1, 36; Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 6: luta et limum aggerebant, Cic. ap. Non. 212, 16:

ingens Aggeritur tumulo tellus,

Verg. A. 3, 63:

quadrantes patrimonio,

Phaedr. 4, 19 (20):

aggesta fluminibus terra,

Plin. 17, 4, 3, § 28:

aggerebatur caespes,

Tac. A. 1, 19.— Trop., to bring forwards, lay to one's charge:

probra,

Tac. A. 13, 14:

falsa,

id. ib. 2, 57.—

* II.

To stick together soft masses:

haec genera (laterum ex terrā cretosā factorum) non sunt ponderosa et faciliter adgeruntur,

Vitr. 2, 3, 35.