“crowd” in Latin

turba (an unorganized mass of people, especially of low rank, hence (The words are found in this connection and order.) vulgus et turba; then also of things): caterva (anybody of men who form one irregular whole, Vid: Nep., Chabr., 1, 2: conducticiae catervae, in opposition to the well-disciplined phalanx): grex (litterally, a herd, then of a number of persons; also used as a term of contempt, as in Cic., Rosc., Am., 32, 89: ego forsitan propter multitudinem patronorum in grege annumerer): frequentia (more in the sense of an assembled body, as thronging a place; also of things): multitudo (any multitude): vis (a great number; e.g., of animals): concursus (a running together of people, e.g., hominum in forum): a great crowd, magna frequentia; magna multitudo: to be attended home by an immense crowd, domum reduci cum maxima frequentia ac multitudine (Cic.): a dense crowd, turba conferta: to get into a dense crowd, *turba conferta premi: to find one’s self in the crowd, in turba consistere: to press through a thick crowd, penetrare per densam turbam: a noisy, tumultuous crowd, tumultuosa turba: he stood in the thickest crowd, in confertissima turba stetit: to throw one’s self into the midst of the crowd, in mediam turbam se conjicere: to struggle with or against the crowd, luctari in turba (Hor.); keep the crowd back! submove turbam! (i. e., to make room, especially as order given to the lictors to make room for the consul): the tribunes ordered the crowd to keep back or to make room, tribuni submoverunt populum (sc. per lictores, Liv.): to be raised above the crowd, longe ab imperitorum intelligentia sensuque sejunctum esse (in an intellectual point of view); also plus sapere, quam ceteri: an uneducated or ignorant crowd, multitudo iniperita or imperitorum.

Of inanimate objects, acervus: cumulus [SYN. in HEAP]: frequentia (e.g., sepulcrorum): silva (e.g., rerum et sententiarum; silva observationum; it can, however, only be used of intellectual objects): nubes (cloud; but not to be used unless the image of a “cloud” can be kept up; hence not nubes exemplorum, but multa exempla, or magna copia exemplorum, especially if to be used for a purpose): in the crowd of laws that fill our statute-book, in hoc immenso aliarum super alias acervatarum legum cumulo. ☞ If a large, but at the same time indefinite number of things is to be expressed, “sexcenti” (litrally, six hundred) is sometimes used in Latin; e.g., I received at once a whole crowd of letters, sexcentas litteras uno tempore accepi, meaning an unusual number of letters.

TR., coartare: coangustare (Hirt.): confereire (of both men and things): constipare (Cic.) condensare (e.g., his ranks, aciem, crowd): constringere (to bind together, that it may take up little room): peranguste refereire (in aliqua re: crowd subjects, arguments, etc., into a small compass): comprimere (to press together; persons and things; e.g., ordines; versus ordinibus, Ov.): astringere (in a speech): To crowd so many men together, tantum numerum hominum constipare (e.g., in agrum campanum, Cic.): so crowded that they can not turn round, ita coartati, ut ne versari quidem possint (after Col. 8, 7, 2): to crowd one another, urgere se; coangustari (Hirt.): they were crowding each other, sese ipsi premebant (Liv.): to crowd sail, plenis velis navigare; passis velis vehi: To crowd many subjects into one book, plura coartare in unum librum; also contrahere (e.g., in paucos libros): crowded, confertus: a very crowded theatre, theatrum celebritate refertissimum.

INTR., confluere (to crowd together in a mass): concurrere (to run together hastily): cogi: se congregare or congregari (to assemble, to meet): artius coire or cogi: frequentes convenire (if in great masses): acervari: cumulari: crescere (to increase, to wax, of a mass of persons and things): to crowd together to one place, se congregare ac condensare in locum unum (Varr.): fresh business is perpetually crowding upon me, negotiis veteribus nova accrescunt: majus in dies occupationum agmen extenditur (Plin., Ep. 2, 8, 3): misfortunes are crowding upon me, malum malo additur (after Liv., 1, 3).

PROPR. To crowd in or into; influere: infundi (to pour in, of a multitude): irruere: irrumpere (burst in) perrumpere (violently burst through all obstacles): invadere (PROP., of an enemy into a town, harbour, etc.; and IMPROP. of evils, etc.).

IMPROPR. Crowd upon (of things crowding on anybody): se offerre: objici (e.g., animo); se inculcare (e.g., oculis. All three of imaginations, recollections, thoughts that crowd upon us or press themselves upon our mind; se inculcare, of imaginary objects that present themselves, as it were, to our eyes). Many thoughts are crowding upon me, multa simul cogito.

To crowd through, penetrare (general term per locum. ad locum, ad locum usque): penetrare per (densam) turbam. perrumpere (burst through): The enemy were crowding through the narrow gates, hostes angusto exitu portarum sese ipsi premebant.