Building: setting of things in good order. Surgens operum structura, Lucan. Verborum structura. Ci. Composition, placing, or compacting of wordes togither. Carminis structura mirifica, Ouid. Making.

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.

I. Lit.

A. In gen. (post-Aug. and very rare): ossa in manu oblonga omnia et triangula, structurā quādam inter se conectuntur, Cels. 8, 1 med.: membranarum, Plin. 13, 19, 34, 112: togae, Macr. S. 2, 9.—

B. In partic., an architectural fitting together, a building or erecting.

1. In abstr. (class.): parietum, the mode of building, construction, Caes. B. C. 2, 9; cf.: structurae antiquae genus, Liv. 21, 11; and: reticulata structura, Plin. 36, 22, 51, 172: (silex) globosus sed structurae infidelis, for building, id. 36, 22, 49, 169: in structurā saxorum rudium, Quint. 9, 4, 27.—Plur.: in structuris lapidum impolitorum, Quint. 8, 6, 63.—

2. In concr., a building, erection, edifice, structure, Front. Aquaed. 123; Vitr. 5, 12: subterraneae, Plin. 36, 22, 50, 170: aerariae structurae, i. e. mining works, mines, Caes. B. G. 3, 21 fin. (al. structuraeque).—

II. Trop., of language, an arrangement, order, structure (in Cic. only as a figure of speech, with quasi or quaedam; later in gen.): verborum quasi structura, Cic. Brut. 8, 33: quasi structura quaedam, id. Or. 44, 149: et verborum est structura quaedam, id. Opt. Gen. 2, 5: proprietates verborum exigit, et structuram et argumentationes, Sen. Ep. 89, 9: mei carminis, Ov. P. 4, 13, 4; Quint. 1, 10, 23; 8, 5, 27; 8, 6, 67; 9, 4, 45; Tac. Or. 22 fin.

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, to make, Prop. 4 (5), 3, 20: cubilia, Luc. 9, 841: convivia, to get ready, prepare, 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? with more embellishment, more ornately, Tert. Cult. Fem. 11.