adgravo

ag-grăvo ( adg- ), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. (first used in the Aug. per., and only in prose writers; perh. formed by Livy, who uses it very often), to add to the weight of, to make heavier.

I.

Lit.:

adgravatur pondus,

Plin. 18, 12, 30, § 117:

adgravavit jugum nostrum,

Vulg. 3 Reg. 12, 10:

compedem meum,

ib. Thren. 3, 7.—

II.

Fig.

A.

In gen., to make worse or more dangerous, [p. 71] to aggravate:

quo (bello) si adgravatae res essent,

Liv. 4, 12:

odor adgravans capita,

Plin. 12, 17, 40, § 79:

ictus,

id. 28, 4, 7, § 37:

vulnera,

id. 28, 3, 6, § 31:

dolorem,

Curt. 8, 10:

proelium,

Vulg. 1 Par. 10, 3:

quare aggravatis corda vestra?

i. e. harden, ib. 1 Reg. 6, 6.—

B.

Esp., to oppress, to burden, annoy, incommode:

sine ope hostis, quae adgravaret,

Liv. 44, 7 fin.:

morbo adgravante (eum),

Suet. Caes. 1:

beneficia rationes nostras adgravatura,

Sen. Ben. 4, 13:

argumenta, quae per se nihil reum adgravare videantur,

appear to be without weight, Quint. 5, 7, 18.