Denso, densas, densâre. Virg.To thicken, or make thicke.Aer densatus & laxatus.Virg.Densatus agger.Liu.Cateruas densare.Virg. Densatum lutum. Cato. Capillum defluentem densare. Plin. To make haire thicke that falleth.Densati ordines.Liu.Men standing in aray close togither.Densatis excipere scutis Liu.To receiue on their targettes holden close togither.Tenebræ densantur nocte.Virg.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
denso, āvi, ātum, 1, and (less freq.) denseo, no perf., ētum, 2 (cf. Prisc. p. 837 P.; Charis. p. 233 ib. The MSS. often confound the two forms; densare appears to be critically certain in Liv. and Quint.; densere act. only denset, Verg. A. 11, 650; imp. densete, id. ib. 12, 264: densebant, Lucr. 5, 491: denserent, Tac. A. 2, 14; also active forms, Apul. Mund. p. 61, 13; Prud. Cath. 5, 53 al.; Sil. 4, 159; gerund, densendo, Lucr. 6, 482; pass. inf. parag. denserier, id. 1, 395; 647: densetur, Ov. M. 14, 369 al.: densentur, Hor. Od. 1, 28, 19; Verg. A. 7, 794, and other forms in Verg.; cf. Wagner, Verg. G. 1, 248.—See also addenso and condenso), v. a., to make thick, to press together, thicken (not in Cic. and Caes.). I.Lit.: Juppiter uvidus austris Densat, erant quae rara modo, et, quae densa, relaxat, Verg. G. 1, 419 (paraphrased: densatus et laxatus aer, Quint. 5, 9, 16); cf.: rarum pectine denset opus, Ov. F. 3, 820; Lucr. 1, 395: ignem, id. 1, 647; 656: omnia, id. 1, 662: agmina, Verg. A. 7, 794; cf. catervas, id. ib. 12, 264: ordines, Liv. 33, 8 fin.: scutis super capita densatis, Liv. 44, 9: funera, Hor. Od. 1, 28, 19: glomerata corpus in unum densatur, Ov. M. 13, 605; cf.: (nubes) largos in imbres, Luc. 4, 76; Plin. 11, 41, 96, 239: obtenta densantur nocte tenebrae, Verg. G. 1, 246; cf. Ov. M. 14, 369: hastilia, i. e.
hurls thickly
, Verg. A. 11, 650; cf. ictus, Tac. A. 2, 14: super acervum petrarum radices ejus densabuntur, Vulg. Job 8, 17.—Absol.: (aestus) quasi densendo subtexit caerula nimbis, Lucr. 6, 482.—II.Trop. of speech, to condense: instandum quibusdam in partibus et densanda oratio, Quint. 11, 3, 164: figuras, id. 9, 3, 101.
