(v. a.adv.) : ac-cŭmŭlo (adc.), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. cumulus
* To add to a heap, to heap up, accumulate, to augment by heaping up (mostly poetical).
* Lit.
* In gen.: ventorum flatu congeriem arenae accumulantium,Plin. 4, 1, 2: confertos acervatim mors accumulabat,Lucr. 6, 1263.—Absol., of heaping up money: auget, addit, adcumulat, * Cic. Agr. 2, 22, 59. (The syn. augere and addere are used of any object, although still small, in extent or number, after the increase; but adcumulare only when it becomes of considerable magnitude; hence the climax in the passage quoted from Cic.)
* Trop., to heap, add, increase: virtutes generis meis moribus, Epitaph of a Scipio in Inscr. Orell. no. 554: caedem caede,to heap murder upon murder,Lucr. 3, 71: aliquem donis,to heap offerings upon one,Verg. A. 6, 886: honorem alicui,Ov. F. 2, 122: curas,id. H. 15, 70.—Absol.: quod ait (Vergilius) sidera lambit (A. 3, 574), vacanter hoc etiam accumulavit et inaniter, has piled up words, Gell. 17, 10, 16.—Hence, accŭmŭlāte, adv., abundantly, copiously (very rare): id prolixe accumulateque fecit,Cic. Fl. 89: accumulate largiri,Auct. Her. 1, 17 fin.: prolixe accumulateque pollicetur,App. M. 10, p. 212.

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