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|lshtext=<b>ăcervus</b>: i, m. v. 2. [[acer]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[multitude]] of objects of the [[same]] [[kind]], [[rising]] in a [[heap]].<br /><b>I</b> Prop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> A [[heap]] considered as a [[body]]: frumenti, Plaut. Ps. 1, 2, 55; cf. id. Cas. 1, 1, 38; Att. ap. Non. 192, 3: [[altus]], Lucr. 3, 198; 1, 775: ut [[acervus]] ex sui generis granis, sic beata [[vita]] ex sui similibus partibus effici debeat, Cic. Tusc. 5, 15: acervi corporum, id. Cat. 3, 10: pecuniae, id. Agr. 2, 22: tritici, id. Ac. 2, 29: farris, Verg. G. 1, 185; [[thus]] Ovid calls [[Chaos]]: [[caecus]] [[acervus]], M. 1, 24.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> A [[heap]] considered as a [[multitude]] (cf. Germ. Haufen and Eng. colloq. [[heap]]): aeris et auri, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 47.—<br /><b>II</b> Fig.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen., a [[multitude]]: facinorum, Cic. Sull. 27: officiorum negotiorumque, Plin. 36, 5, 4, § 27: praeceptorum, Ov. Rem. Am. 424 al.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Esp., in dialectics, t. t., a [[sophism]] formed by [[accumulation]], Gr. [[σωρείτης]], Cic. Ac. 2, 16, 49; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 47; cf. [[acervalis]].
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|gf=<b>ăcervus</b>,¹⁰ ī, m., monceau, tas, amas : Cic. Tusc. 5, 45 ; Agr. 2, 59 ; Phil. 2, 97 ; Sest. 77 || [sorite] : Cic. Ac. 2, 49 ; Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 47.
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