Stipo, stipas, stipâre. Virg.To stoppe chinkes or clefts.Turba stipat fora.Ouid.Companie silleth the market place. Stipare.Cic.To inuiron or compasse, to defend one.Caterua magna stipante incessit.Virg.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
stīpo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [ste/fw, to surround, crowd upon, ste/mma, ste/fanos; cf.: stipator, stipulor], to crowd or press together, to compress (class.; esp. of personal objects, and in part. perf.; cf.: comprimo, compono). I.Lit.: qui acceperant majorem numerum (assium), non in arcā ponebant, sed in aliquā cellā stipabant, id est componebant, quo minus loci occuparet, Varr. L. L. 5, 182 Müll.: ingens argentum, Verg. A. 3, 465: apes mella Stipant, id. G. 4, 164; id. A. 1, 433: materies stipata, Lucr. 1, 345: nec tamen undique corporea stipata tenentur omnia naturā, id. 1, 329; cf. id. 2, 294; 1, 611; 1, 664: Graeci stipati, quini in lectulis, saepe plures, Cic. Pis. 27, 67: velut stipata phalanx, Liv. 33, 18: ita in arto stipatae erant naves, ut, etc., id. 26, 39: fratrum stipata cohors, Verg. A. 10, 328.— Poet.: stipare Platona Menandro, i. e. to pack up together the works of Plato, Menander, etc., Hor. S. 2, 3, 11: custodum gregibus circa seu stipat euntem,