aggero
δυοῖν κακοῖν προκειμένοιν τὸ μὴ χεῖρον βέλτιστον → the lesser of two evils, the less bad thing of a pair of bad things, better the devil you know, better the devil you know than the devil you don't, better the devil you know than the devil you don't know, better the devil you know than the one you don't, better the devil you know than the one you don't know, the devil that you know is better than the devil that you don't know, the devil we know is better than the devil we don't, the devil we know is better than the devil we don't know, the devil you know is better than the devil you don't
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
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.
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.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
(1) aggĕrō,¹³ āvī, ātum, āre (agger),
1 amonceler, accumuler : cadavera Virg. G. 3, 556, amonceler les cadavres ; ossa disjecta vel aggerata Tac. Ann. 1, 61, ossements épars ou amoncelés
