(verb) : a-strŭo (ads-, Merk., Halm, Dinter), struxi, structum, 3
* To build near or in addition to a thing, to add (mostly in prose and post-Aug.; never in Cic.).
* Lit.: cum veteri adstruitur recens aedificium,Col. 1, 5 fin.: utrique (villae) quae desunt,Plin. Ep. 9, 7 fin.: sicut ante secunda fortuna tot victorias adstruxerat; ita nunc adversa destruens quae cumulaverat,Just. 23, 3: medicamentum adstruere,Scrib. Comp. 227.
* In gen.
* To add to: adstrue formae,Ov. A. A. 2, 119: victus ab eo Pharnaces vix quicquam gloriae ejus adstruxit, Vell. 2, 55: aliquid magnificentiae,Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 119; so, dignitati,Plin. Ep. 3, 2, 5: famae,id. ib. 4, 17, 7: felicitati,id. Pan. 74, 2: alicui laudem,id. ib. 46, 8: alicui nobilitatem ac decus,Tac. H. 1, 78: consulari ac triumphalibus ornamentis praedito quid aliud adstruere fortuna poterat?id. Agr. 44: adstruit auditis ... pavor,Sil. 4, 8: ut quae Neroni falsus adstruit scriptor,ascribes, imputes,Mart. 3, 20: ut Livium quoque priorum aetati adstruas, i.e. annumeres,Vell. 1, 17.
* To furnish with something (syn. instruo): contignationem laterculo adstruxerunt,covered, fastened,Caes. B. C. 2, 9.—Trop.: aliquem falsis criminibus,i.e. to charge,Curt. 10, 1.!*? The signif. affirmare, which Agroet. p. 2268 P., and Beda, p. 2334 P. give, is found in no Lat. author; for in Plin. 12, 18, 41, § 83, instead of adstruxerunt, it is better to read adseverant; v. Sillig ad h. l.; so also Jan.