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accŭmŭlāte (adc.), adv., v. accumulo fin.

* accŭmŭlātĭo (adc.), ōnis, f. [accumulo], a heaping up, only as t. t. in the lang. of gardening, of the heaping up of earth round the roots of plants, Plin. 17, 26, 39, § 246.

* accŭmŭlātor (adc.), ōris, m. [accumulo], one who heaps up or accumulates: opum, Tac. A. 3, 30.

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).

  1. I. Lit.
    1. A. 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.)
    2. B. Esp., botan. t. t., to heap up earth round the roots of plants, to trench up, Plin. 17, 19, 31, § 139; 18, 29, 71, § 295; 19, 5, 26, § 83 al.
  2. II. 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.

ac-cūro (adc.), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. (arch. accurassis = accuraveris, Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 29; id. Pers. 3, 1, 65), to take care of, to do a thing with care.

  1. I. In gen. (in Plaut. and Ter. very often; more rare in the class. per., partic. in the verb. fin.; while the P. a. occurs very often in Cic., see below).
          1. (α) With acc.: prandium alicui, Plaut. Mer. 1, 3, 25: quod facto est opus, id. Cas. 3, 3, 25: rem sobrie aut frugaliter, id. Pers. 4, 1, 1 al.: melius adcurantur, quae consilio geruntur, quam quae sine consilio administrantur, Cic. Inv. 1, 34, 58: virtus et cultus humanus sub tecto adcurantur, id. Fr. in Col. 12 praef.: barbam, Lampr. Heliog. 31.
          2. (β) Absol.: ergo adcures: properato opus est, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 210, v. Ritschl a. h. l.
          3. (γ) With ut or ne: omnes bonos bonasque adcurare addecet, suspicionem et culpam ut ab se segregent, Plaut. Trin. 1, 2, 42; so with ut, Ter. And. 3, 2, 14; with ne, id. Hec. 5, 1, 12.
  2. II. Esp.: adcurare aliquem, to treat one carefully, regale a guest, Plaut. Ep. 5, 1, 55.
    Hence, accūrātus, a, um, P. a., prepared with care, careful, studied, elaborate, exact (never of persons, for which diligens is used; syn.: meditatus, exquisitus, elaboratus, politus): adcurata malitia, a studied artifice, Plaut. Truc. 2, 5, 20: adcuratae et meditatae commentationes, Cic. de Or. 1, 60, 257: adcuratius et exquisitius dicendi genus, id. Brut. 82, 283: adcuratissima diligentia, id. Att. 7, 3 al: adcuratum habere = adcurare, to take care, be at pains, Plaut. Bac. 3, 6, 21.
    Adv.: accūrāte, carefully, nicely, exactly (syn.: diligenter, studiose, exquisite), Cic. Att. 16, 5; id. Parad. 1, 4; id. Brut. 22 al.
    Comp., id. Att. 8, 12; Caes. B. G. 6, 22; id. B. Alex. 12.
    Sup., id. Fam. 5, 17; Nep. Lys. 4, 2.

ac-curro (adc.), cŭcurri and curri, cursum, 3, v. n., to run to a place, to come to by running, to hasten to.

  1. I. Lit. constr. absol., with ad and in: expeditus facito ut sis, si inclamāro ut accurras, Cic. Att. 2, 20; 12, 18 (accucurrisse); 13, 48: cupide ad praetorem accurrit, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 3; so Caes. B. G. 1, 22; ib. 3, 5; Sall. J. 106, 2: in Tusculanum, Cic. Att. 15, 3: ad gemitum collabentis, Tac. A. 2, 31: in castra, Caes. B. Alex. 53: in auxilium accucurrerunt, Suet. Calig. 58: ad visendum, id. Ner. 34: auxilio suis, Sall. J. 101, 10.
    Impers.: accurritur ab universis, Tac. A. 1, 21.
  2. II. Trop., of ideas: istae imagines ita nobis dicto audientes sunt, ut simul atque velimus accurrant, come up, present themselves, Cic. Div. 2, 67, 138.

accursus (adc.), ūs, m. [accurro], a running or coming to: Remi, Ov. F. 2, 3, 72: comitum, Stat. Th. 6, 511: populi, Tac. A. 4, 41: subitus militum, Val. Max. 6, 8, 6: tot provinciarum, Tac. H. 4, 25 al.: civium, Sen. Hipp. 894.