accolo

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

ac-cŏlo (adc.), cŏlui, cultum, 3, v. a.,

I to dwell by or near , constr. with acc. or absol.

α With acc.: Histrum fluvium, Naev ap. Cic. Or. 45, 152 (Rib. Trag. Rel. p. 14): arcem, Att. ap. Non. 357, 14 ( ib. p. 202): illum locum, * Cic. Rep. 6, 18 fin. : viam, Liv. 28, 13, 4: Macedoniam, id. 39, 46, 7: Pontum, Tac. H. 3, 47: Nilum, Verg. G. 4, 288; cf.: Rhenum, Tac. H. 1, 51: nives Haemi, Ov. F. 1, 390: Capitolī saxum, Verg. A. 9, 448 al.; hence, pass. : fluvius crebris oppidis accolitur, Plin. 3, 1, 30, § 9.—

β Absol. : vicine Apollo, qui aedibus Propinquus nostris adcolis, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 1, 4 (the dat. aedibus belongs to propinquus, not to adcolis, as Prisc. p. 1203 P. seems to have construed).—Poet.: accolere vitem, to be a cultivating neighbor of it , Cat. 62, 55 dub. (Müller reads coluere.)

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