1. aggĕro (adg-), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [agger].
- I. Lit., to form an agger, or to heap up like an agger; hence, in gen., to heap up, pile up (cf. cumulare; only poet. and in post-Aug. prose): aggerat cadavera, Verg. G. 3, 556: Laurentis praemia pugnae aggerat, id. A. 11, 79: ossa disjecta vel aggerata, Tac. A. 1, 61; 1, 63.
- II. Transf.
- A. To heap up, i. e. to augment, increase: incenditque animum dictis atque aggerat iras, Verg. A. 4, 197, and 11, 342: omne promissum, Stat. Th. 2, 198.
- B. To fill, fill up: spatium, Curt. 4, 2.
- C. Aggerare arborem, in gardening, to heap up earth around a tree in order to protect the roots, Col. 11, 2, 46.
2. ag-gĕro (adg-), gessi, gestum, 3, v. a.
- I. To bear, carry, convey, bring to or toward a place; with ad or dat. (in Plaut. freq.; in the class. per. rare; in Cic. perh. only once; more freq. in Tac.): quom eorum aggerimus bona, quin etiam ultro ipsi aggerunt ad nos, Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 16: mihi his aggerunda etiam est aqua, id. Rud. 2, 5, 27; so id. Cas. 1, 1, 36; Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 6: luta et limum aggerebant, Cic. ap. Non. 212, 16: ingens Aggeritur tumulo tellus, Verg. A. 3, 63: quadrantes patrimonio, Phaedr. 4, 19 (20): aggesta fluminibus terra, Plin. 17, 4, 3, § 28: aggerebatur caespes, Tac. A. 1, 19.
Trop., to bring forwards, lay to one’s charge: probra, Tac. A. 13, 14: falsa, id. ib. 2, 57.
- * II. To stick together soft masses: haec genera (laterum ex terrā cretosā factorum) non sunt ponderosa et faciliter adgeruntur, Vitr. 2, 3, 35.