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|lshtext=<b>denso</b>: āvi, ātum, 1, and ([[less]] freq.) [[denseo]], no<br /><b>I</b> perf., ētum, 2 (cf. Prisc. p. 837 P.; [[Charis]]. p. 233 ib. The MSS. [[often]] [[confound]] the [[two]] forms; densare appears to be [[critically]] [[certain]] in Liv. and Quint.; densere [[act]]. [[only]] denset, Verg. A. 11, 650; imp. densete, id. ib. 12, 264: densebant, Lucr. 5, 491: denserent, Tac. A. 2, 14; also [[active]] forms, Apul. Mund. p. 61, 13; Prud. Cath. 5, 53 al.; Sil. 4, 159; gerund, densendo, Lucr. 6, 482; [[pass]]. inf. parag. denserier, id. 1, 395; 647: densetur, Ov. M. 14, 369 al.: densentur, Hor. Od. 1, 28, 19; Verg. A. 7, 794, and [[other]] forms in Verg.; cf. Wagner, Verg. G. 1, 248.—See also addenso and [[condenso]]), v. a., to [[make]] [[thick]], to [[press]] [[together]], [[thicken]] (not in Cic. and Caes.).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: [[Juppiter]] [[uvidus]] austris Densat, erant quae rara [[modo]], et, quae densa, relaxat, Verg. G. 1, 419 (paraphrased: densatus et [[laxatus]] aer, Quint. 5, 9, 16); cf.: rarum pectine denset [[opus]], Ov. F. 3, 820; Lucr. 1, 395: ignem, id. 1, 647; 656: omnia, id. 1, 662: agmina, Verg. A. 7, 794; cf. catervas, id. ib. 12, 264: ordines, Liv. 33, 8 fin.: scutis [[super]] capita densatis, Liv. 44, 9: funera, * Hor. Od. 1, 28, 19: glomerata [[corpus]] in unum densatur, Ov. M. 13, 605; cf.: ([[nubes]]) largos in imbres, Luc. 4, 76; Plin. 11, 41, 96, § 239: obtenta densantur nocte [[tenebrae]], Verg. G. 1, 246; cf. Ov. M. 14, 369: hastilia, i. e. hurls [[thickly]], Verg. A. 11, 650; cf. [[ictus]], Tac. A. 2, 14: [[super]] acervum petrarum radices ejus densabuntur, Vulg. Job 8, 17.—Absol.: ([[aestus]]) [[quasi]] densendo subtexit caerula nimbis, Lucr. 6, 482.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop. of [[speech]], to [[condense]]: instandum quibusdam in partibus et densanda [[oratio]], Quint. 11, 3, 164: figuras, id. 9, 3, 101.
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