Cumulus, li, pe. cor. m. g. Liu.An heape.Immensus aliarum super alias aceruatarÛ legÛ cumulus. Li. Immanibus cumulis aggerare. Claud. Rerum cumulum atque congestum habere. Quin. Auri cumulos struere. Claud. Cumulus.By translatiõ the increase & plenty of any thingCumulus commen dationis.Cic.Farce more commendatiõ.Cumulus deliciarum. Plin. Cumulus dierum.Cic.Cumulum gaudij afferre.Cic.To make exceeding glad.Augere cumulo beneficium, Vide AVGRO.Beatus omni laudum cumulo.Stat.Malorum maximus cumulus. Sen. Pro mercedis cumulo fuerunt. Cice. For a more aboundant praise or rewarde.Perfidiæ cumulus.Ouid.Ad summam lætitiam meam, quam ex tuo reditu capio, magnus illius aduentu cumulus accedit. C. The exceding gladnes that I conceiue by your reward, is much increased with this mans comming.Vt ad tua innumerabilia in me vnum merita, maximus hoc cuo facto cumulus accesserit.Cic.That much may be added to.Deruere cumulum de laudibus alicuius.Cic.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
cŭmŭlus, i, m. [Sanscr. çva, to swell; Gr. kue/w, ku/w; cf. ku=ma], a heap, as coming to a point, a pile, a mass piled up (class.; esp. freq. in the signif. II.): in hoc immenso aliarum super alias acervatarum legum cumulo, Liv. 3, 34, 6; cf.: hostium coacervatorum, id. 22, 7, 5; 5, 48, 3: corpus obrutum superstratis Gallorum cumulis, id. 9, 29, 19; and: armorum cumulos coacervare id. 5, 39, 1: caesorum corporum, id. 22, 59, 3: saxei, Plin. 31, 10, 46, 111: eminens (aquae in poculis), id. 2, 65, 65, 163: aquarum, Ov. M. 15, 508: pulveris, id. ib. 14, 137: harenae, Verg. G. 1, 105: insequitur cumulo praeruptus aquae mons. follows with its mass, id. A. 1, 105; cf. id. ib. 2, 498. —II.A heap added to an accumulated mass or to a full measure (cf. Paul. ex Fest. s. v. auctarium, p. 14, 17 Müll.), a surplus, overplus, accession, addition, increase; a summit, point, crown, etc., Cic. Prov. Cons. 11, 26: ut ad illam praedam damnatio Sex. Roscii velut cumulus accedat, id. Rosc. Am. 3, 8; cf.: ad summam laetitiam meam magnus ex illius adventu cumulus accedet, id. Att. 4, 19 (18): cumulus commendationis tuae, id. ib. 16, 3, 3; and: cui gloriae amplior adhuc cumulus accessit, Suet. Tib. 17: accesserint in cumulum manubiae vestrorum imperatorum,
as an addition
, Cic. Agr. 2, 23, 62: aliquem cumulum artibus adferre, id. de Or. 3, 35, 143: magnum beneficium tuum magno cumulo auxeris, id. Fam. 13, 62 fin.; cf. Ov. M. 11, 206: Otho pontificatus honoratis jam senibus cumulum dignitatis addidit, Tac. H. 1, 77: mille equites, cumulus prosperis aut subsidium laborantibus, ducerentur, id. ib. 2, 24fin.: pro mercedis cumulo, Cic. Att. 1, 16, 5; Ov. M. 14, 472. —B. In rhet.: peroratio, quam cumulum quidam, alii conclusionem vocant, Quint. 6, 1, 1; cf. id. 7, prooem. 1; 8, 3, 88.
