(verb) : con-strŭo, struxi, structum, 3 (
* Part. fut. constrŭĭtūra, Ven. Carm. 2, 10 fin.)
* To heap, bring, or gather together, to heap or pile up (class.): acervos nummorum apud aliquem,Cic. Phil. 2, 38, 97; cf.: omnibus rebus et modis constructā et coacervatā pecuniā,id. Agr. 1, 5, 14; and acervum,Hor. S. 1, 1, 44: divitias,id. ib. 2, 3, 96: carros, to make a barricade, Sisenn. ap. Non. p. 195, 29: has omnes multas magnificasque res,Cic. de Or. 1, 35, 161; cf.: copiam ornamentorum uno in loco,id. ib. § 162: super prela congeriem,Plin. 18, 31, 74, § 318.
* (Like compono, II.) To make by piling up, to make, fabricate, construct, build (class.; most freq. in Cic.).
* In gen.: construere atque aedificare mundum,Cic. N. D. 1, 8, 19: ut navem, ut aedificium idem destruit facillime qui construxit,id. Sen. 20, 72; cf. delubra,id. Leg. 2, 8, 19: arces,Sil. 8, 145: sepulcrum saxo quadrato,Liv. 1, 26, 14; cf.: horrea saxeo muro constructa,Suet. Ner. 38; and: pilam saxeam magnis molibus,Verg. A. 9, 712: cubilia sibi nidosque (aves),Cic. N. D. 2, 52, 129; cf. nidos,id. de Or. 2, 6, 23; and: nidum sibi,Ov. M. 15, 397: dentibus in ore constructis manditur cibus,arranged,Cic. N. D. 2, 54, 134: large multiplici constructae sunt dape mensae, furnished, * Cat. 64, 304.
* Esp., in gram. lang., to connect grammatically, construct, Prisc. p. 1099 sq. P. et saep.

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