Strues, struis, f. g. Liu.A pile of woode: A cake.Strues salinarum.Cic.A great heape of salt.Strues vuarum. Plin. An heape of, &c.Struppi.Little wreathes made of leaues, put on the heades of Images in temples.Strutheus.The priuie member of a man.Struthopedes.They that haue little rounde feete.
Struo, struis, struxi, structum, strúere. Liu.To set ín order, fashion, or array: to builde: to make a frame.Speluncæ saxis structæ.Cic.Wrought: made. Struere aliquid.Tacit.To go about to doe a thing.Num me fefellit hosce id struere? Terent.Was Ideceiued when I saide these sellowes went about such a thing? Aciem struere. Ci. To set souldiours in array of battaile.Aggere struere. Cæs. To make causeis or bulwarkes.Arcus struere.Tacit.Bellum struitur.Cic.Prouision is made for warre.Calamitatem alicui struere.Cic.To worke or go about ones destruction.Causas struere.Tacit.Consilia struere. Li. To take aduisement how to do a thing.De nomine & vocabulo controuersiam struere. Author ad Herennium. Conuiuia struere.Tacit.To make feastes.Mane copias ante frontem castrorum struit. Cæs. Crimen alicui struere.Tacit.To go about to accuse one falsly of some great offence.Frondes congestæ struxere cubilia. Lucan. Dolos struere. Sen. To worke deceit.Domos struere. Hor. To builde houses.Epulas struere.Tacit.To prepare feastes.Fercula luxutiose struere. Columel. To make sumptuous feastes.Insidias alicui struere.Liu.To lay an imbushmÊt to intrap, to worke wiles against one.Sera quidem tanto struitur medicina dolori. Sta. Is prepared too late.Mendacium struere.Liu.To imagine, or forge a lie.Moles struere.Tacit.Montes ad sydera struxerunt gigantes.Ouid.The Giantes laide hilles one dpon an other vp to heauen.Odium strucre in aliquem.Cic.To gue about to bring one in hatred and displeasure.Opes struere.Liu.To heape vp riches.Orationem solutam struere. Gell. To write in prose.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
strŭes, is, f. [id.], a heap, pile of things put together. I. In gen. (class.; syn.: acervus, cumulus, congeries): laterum, Cic. Att. 5, 12, 3: corporum, Liv. 23, 5; Tac. H. 2, 70; 3, 83: lignorum, Liv. 21, 37; Plin. 16, 11, 22, 53: arma cum telis in strue mixta, Ov. P. 2, 1, 40: rogi,
a funeral pile
,
pyre
, Tac. G. 27; Luc. 8, 757; Sen. Phoen. 112; id. Oedip. 33: uvarum, Plin. 14, 4, 5, 51 et saep.: (milites Macedones) confusa strue implicantur,
a heap
,
mass
,
phalanx
, Liv. 44, 41, 7.—Collect., with a verb in the plur.: LOCVS QVO EA STRVES CONGERANTVR, i. e. piles of wood, Cenot. Pis. I. (in Inscr. Orell. 642).—II. In partic., in relig. lang., a heap of little offering-cakes: strues genera liborum sunt, digitorum conjunctorum non dissimilia, qui superjecta panicula in transversum continentur, Fest. p. 310 Müll.; cf. id. s. v. ferctum, p. 85; cf. Cato, R. R. 134, 2; 141, 4; Ov. F. 1, 276; Inscr. Fratr. Arv. ap. Marin. p. 403.
strŭo, xi, ctum, 3, v. a. [root stor; Gr. strw/nnumi, to spread; cf. Sanscr. upa-star, to make ready; and v. sterno], to place by or upon each other; to pile up, arrange, etc. I.Lit.A. In gen. (rare but class.; cf. condo, compono): quasi structa et nexa verbis, etc., Cic. Or. 41, 140: lateres, qui super musculo struantur, Caes. B. C. 2, 10: altaque congestos struxisse ad sidera montes, Ov. M. 1, 153: arbores in pyram, id. ib. 9, 231: frugem ordine, Cic. Sen. 15, 51: avenas, Ov. M. 1, 677: ordine longo penum, Verg. A. 1, 704; Sil. 11, 279; hence, poet., transf.: altaria donis, Verg. A. 5, 54: acervum, Hor. S. 1, 1, 35: congeriem armorum, Tac. A. 2, 22: opes, rem,
to heap up
,
accumulate
, Petr. 120, 85; Pers. 2, 44: PEDEM, to heap up steps, i. e. to flee: SI CALVITVR PEDEMVE STRVIT MANVM ENDOIACITO, Fragm. XII. Tab. ap. Fest. 313 Müll.—Absol.: aliae (apes) struunt, aliae poliunt, aliae suggerunt, pile up (the comb), Plin. 11, 10, 10, 22. —B. In partic. 1.To make by joining together; to build, erect, fabricate, make, form, construct (syn. aedifico): fornacem bene struito ... lateribus summam (fornacem) struito, Cato, R. R. 38, 1 and 3: per speluncas saxis structas, Poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 16, 37 (Trag. Rel. p. 208 Rib.); imitated by Lucr. 6, 195; cf.: templa saxo structa vetusto, Verg. A. 3, 84: moenia saxo, Ov. M. 6, 573: moenia, Verg. A. 5, 811: domos, Hor. C. 2, 18, 19: pyras, Verg. A. 11, 204: ingentem pyram, id. ib. 6, 215; Luc. 3, 240: navem, Val. Fl. 5, 295: tubas,
, Tac. A. 15, 37 et saep.— Absol.: reticulata structura, quā frequentissime Romae struunt, Plin. 36, 22, 51, 172. —Part. perf., subst.: saxorum structa,
masonry
, Lucr. 4, 361.—2. With the idea of order predominating, to set in order, arrange: copias ante frontem castrorum struit,
arranges
,
draws up in rank and file
, Caes. B. C. 3, 37; so, aciem, Liv. 9, 31; 8, 8; Verg. A. 9, 42: omnes armatos in campo, Liv 42, 51.—II.Trop.A. In gen., to join together, compound, compose: ex praepositione et duobus vocabulis dure videtur struxisse Pacuvius, Nerei repandirostrum, Quint. 1, 5, 67.—B. In partic. 1.To prepare something detrimental; to cause, occasion; to devise, contrive, instigate, etc. (very freq., esp. in Cic.): struunt sorores Atticae dirum nefas, Poët. ap. Mar. Vict. p. 2596 P. (Trag. Rel. p. 272 Rib.): aliquid calamitatis struere et moliri, Cic. Clu. 64, 178: sycophantias, Plaut. As. 1, 1, 57: num me fefellit hosce id struere?Ter. Heaut. 3, 2, 3: sollicitudinem sibi, Cic. Att. 5, 21, 3: odium in alios, id. de Or. 2, 51, 208: insidias alicui, Liv. 23, 17: consilia recuperandi regni, id. 2, 3; Tac. A. 2, 65 fin.; Ov. M. 1, 198: periculum ruinae, Caecin. ap. Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 3: pericula alicui, Sen. Ep. 10, 2: mortem alicui, Tac. A. 4, 10 fin.: crimina et accusatores, id. ib. 11, 12; cf.: ultroque struebantur qui monerent perfugere ad Germaniae exercilus, id. ib. 4, 67: controversiam de nomine, Auct. Her. 2, 28, 45: causas, Tac. A. 2, 42: quid struit?Verg. A. 4, 235: quid struis?id. ib. 4, 271; Hor. Ep. 1, 3, 6.—2.To order, arrange, dispose, regulate: rem domi, Plaut. Aul. 3, 6, 8: verba, Cic. de Or. 3, 43, 171: bene structa collocatio, id. Or. 70, 232: orationem, Quint. 7, 10, 7: orationem solutam, Prob. ap. Gell. 13, 20, 1: dum proxima dicimus, struere ulteriora possimus, Quint. 10, 7, 8: quid parum structum (in oratione), Sen. Ep. 100, 5: cum varios struerem per saecula reges,
ordained
, Val. Fl. 1, 535.—3.To fit out, provide with (late Lat.): quot steriles utriusque naturae infructuosis genitalibus structi, Tert. Res. Carn. 61: sermo autem spiritu structus est, id. adv. Prax. 8; id. Verg. Vel. 9.—Hence, structē, adv., orderly, regularly, methodically (very rare): historiam scripsere Sallustius structe, Pictor incondite, Front. Ep. ad Ver. 1: quae nobis causa est structius prodeundi?