adverb
gregātim
gregātim (not comparable)
Meaning
- not comparablein flocks, in crowds, in herds
grĕgātim, adv. id.,
I. in flocks, herds, or swarms.
I. Lit., of animals:
haec facienda, si gregatim pecora laborant: illa deinceps, si singula, Col. 6, 5 fin.: apes rempublicam habent, consilia privatim ac duces gregatim, Plin. 11, 5, 4, § 11: elephanti gregatim semper ingrediuntur, id. 8, 5, 5, § 11; 9, 15, 18, § 47.—II. Transf., in troops or crowds:
videtis cives Romanos gregatim conjectos in lautumias, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 57, § 148; Just. 13, 8; Plin. 4, 12, 26, § 89: accidit, ut nova contra genera morborum gregatim sentirentur, i. e. among the common people, id. 26, 1, 3, § 4.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
gregātim adv.
grex, in flocks, in crowds, in throngs : cives coniecti.
Origins
From grex, greg- (“flock, herd”) + -ātim.