stīpātio, ōnis, f. [stipo], a crowd pressing around any one, a suite, retinue, train.
I Lit.: latrones dicti ab latere, qui circum latera erant regi, quos postea a stipatione stipatores appellarunt, Varr. L. L. 7, § 52 Müll. fin. : concursatio, stipatio, greges hominum perditorum, * Cic. Sull. 23, 66; cf. Sen. Q. N. 5, 3, 3; Plin. Ep. 4, 16, 1; Auct. Pan. ad Maxim. et Const. 8 fin. —Of geese swarming together, Plin. 10, 22, 27, § 53.— *
II Trop., a crowd , throng : aggressionum et enthymematum stipatio, Quint. 5, 14, 27.