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ad + GES-, a mass, heap, collection, pile : aggere paludem explere, Cs.: longius erat agger petendus, Cs.: fossas aggere conplent, V.— A heap of rubbish, pile of stones, bank, mound, dam, pier, hillock, wall, dike, mole, rampart : aggeribus niveis informis terra, with snow-drifts , V.: proelia miscent Aggeribus murorum, V.: molirique aggere tecta, a stockade , V.: aggeribus ruptis amnis exit, dams , V.: muniti aggere portūs, a breakwater , O.: viae agger, a causeway , V.—Poet.: aggeres Alpini, i. e. mountains , V.— A funeral pile , O.— A platform (for a speaker), O.— In war, a mound erected before a besieged city to sustain battering engines : vineis ad oppidum actis, aggere iacto, Cs.: aggerem iacere, S.: promovere ad urbem, to bring near to the city , L.; usu. of wood; hence, ut agger, tormenta flammam conciperent, Cs.: aggerem ac vineas incendium hausit, L.— Fig.: esset agger oppugnandae Italiae, a rampart for attacking . — Freq. of mounds or terraces in Rome, built for defence, and afterwards used as promenades, a boulevard, terrace : maximus (Tarquinii): (Servius) aggere circumdat urbem, L.: Aggere in aprico spatiari, H.— A mound to protect a camp : seges aggere cingit, V.