Congrego, cóngregas, pen. cor. congregâre. To gather or assemble togither. Ab ortu naturæ congregari. Cic.Congregabantur vndique ad T. Tacium. Liu.They gathered togither on all partes to. T. Tat.Congregare se ad alterum, & coniungere.Cic.To associate and ioyne himselfe with one.Libenter se cum æqualibus congregant homines.Cic.Men keepe company gladly with their equalles.Se cum aliquo alicubi congregare.Cic.Congregare vnum in locum.Cic.To gather togither.Ciues vnum se iu locum ad ciam congregabant. Cic.In eundem numerum congregare aliquem.Cicer.To put into the same number.Dissipatos homines congregare.Cic.Virus congregare.Senec.
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con-grĕgo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to collect into a flock or herd, to assemble.I. Prop. (rare; mostly in Pliny the elder): oves, Plin. 8, 47, 72, 188.—Mid.: apium examina congregantur,
collect in swarms
, Cic. Off. 1, 44, 157; cf. id. N. D. 2, 48, 124: cetera animantia congregari videmus, Plin. 7, prooem. 1, 5: cum ceteris, id. 8, 22, 34, 81: in loca certa, id. 10, 23, 31, 61: se ad amnes (ferae), id. 8, 16, 17, 42.—More freq. (in good prose; esp. freq. in Cic.), II. In gen., to collect or assemble a multitude together, to unite, join, associate.A.Lit.: dissipatos homines, Cic. Tusc. 1, 25, 62; cf.: dispersos homines in unum locum, id. de Or. 1, 8, 33: se unum in locum ad curiam, id. Phil. 14, 6, 15: dissipatos (homines) unum in locum, id. Sest. 42, 91: multitudinem fugitivorum unum in locum, id. Par. 4, 1, 27; Tac. A. 1, 28 fin.: hominem in idem Vettii indicium atque in eundem hunc numerum, Cic. Vatin. 10, 25.—With cum: se cum aequalibus, Cic. Fin. 5, 15, 42; id. Quint. 16, 52; id. Rab. Perd. 7, 21 fin.—With dat.: cum illis moror quibus me tempus aliquod congregavit, Sen. Ep. 62, 2.—Absol.: deterrimum quemque, Tac. A. 1, 16 fin.—Mid.: secedant improbi, unum in locum congregentur, Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 32: in fano congregantur commentandi causā, id. Div. 1, 41, 90: in Academiā congregati, id. Ac. 1, 9, 34: armati locis patentibus congregantur, Liv. 24, 21, 9: congregabantur undique ad Titum Tatium, id. 1, 10, 1: quanta vis oriens et congregata, Cic. Dom. 25, 67: Gamphasantes nulli externo congregantur, Plin. 5, 8, 8, 45: ciconiae abiturae congregantur in certo loco, id. 10, 23, 31, 61: cuncti deinde ad portum congregantur, Just. 19, 2, 10: inter se, Tac. A. 1, 30: in urbe, id. H. 3, 82. —And in tmesis: conque gregantur, Lucr. 6, 456.—Prov.: pares cum paribus facillime congregantur, Cic. Sen. 3, 7.—B.Trop. (rare; mostly in Quint.), to collect, accumulate: argumenta infirmiora, Quint. 5, 12, 4: verba, id. 9, 3, 45; cf. turbam (verborum), id. 10, 1, 7; cf. congregatio, II.