Lewis Short
(verb) : in-gĕro, gessi, gestum, 3, (
* Imper. inger for ingere, Cat. 27, 2), to carry, pour, throw, or put into, in, or upon a place.
* Lit.
* In gen.: aquam ingere,Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 24: ligna foco,Tib. 2, 1, 22: quicquid vini oleique erat, oribus ingerebatur,Curt. 7, 5, 7: e puteis aquam in salinas,Plin. 31, 7, 39, § 81.
* Trop.
* Ingerere se, to betake one's self or rush to any place: ubi confertissimos hostes pugnare conspexisset, eo se semper ingerebat,Just. 11, 14, 5: se morti obviam,Sen. Herc. Fur. 1032; cf.: se oculis, to offer one's self to, Just. 18, 7, 9: sese periclis,Sil. 10, 5.
* To inflict upon, execute, apply: supplicia,Sen. Med. 461: pugnos alicui in ventrem,to deal blows,Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 95: verbera, Curt. 6, 11, 8: manus capiti,Sen. Ep. 99 med.
* Of weapons, to press upon, thrust into: ensem viris,Val. Fl. 6, 230: hastas in tergum fugientibus,Verg. A. 9, 763: saxa in subeuntes,Liv. 2, 65, 4: sagittas et jacula,id. 36, 18, 5: missilia in propugnantes,Curt. 4, 3, 15; 4, 4, 13.
* To bring, give, or present to one: saginandis anseribus polentae duas partes, et furfuris quatuor ingerunt,Pall. 1, 30: mihi nova pocula,Nemes. Cyneg. 5.—Absol.: aqua frigida ingesta sistitur sanguis,administered internally,Plin. 31, 3, 23, § 40.
* To bring, throw, heap, or put upon a person or thing: ut Cassandreus, saucius ingestā contumuleris humo,Ov. Ib. 460: vasta giganteis ingesta est insula membris,id. M. 5, 346: adeps pastillis ingestus,Plin. 30, 13, 38, § 112: stercus vitibus,Col. 2, 16, 8: summis ingestum montibus Aepy,Stat. Th. 4, 180: facies ingesta sopori,Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 81: ingesta vincula unguibus,id. B. Gild. 365: supplicia,Sen. Med. 461.
* In gen., of language.
* To pour forth, to pour out against: convicia alicui,Hor. S. 1, 5, 12: contumelias,Tac. A. 1, 39: vocis verborumque quantum voletis,Liv. 3, 68, 4.
* In partic.
* To obtrude, press, or force upon one: ne recusanti quidem amicitiam suam ingerere destitit,Suet. Vit. Hor. p. 297 Roth: nomina liberis,Tac. Or. 7; cf. id. A. 1, 72: filium filiamque orbis senibus,Petr. 140: omnia imperia recusanti,Just. 6, 8: ingerebat iste Artemidorum,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 28, § 69: his se ingerit (Fortuna),presses her favors,Juv. 6, 609: veritatis tanta vis est ut nemo ... qui non videat ingerentem se oculis divinam claritatem,Lact. 1, 5, 2: nomen patris patriae a populo saepius ingestum repudiavit,pressed upon him,Tac. A. 1, 72.
* To heap up: scelus sceleri,Sen. Thyest. 731.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary