 passive inference while the Greek senses suggest
the kinds of added meanings that might be involved in synthetic efforts
to gather thoughts and to select ideas for arrangement in speeches and
lectures.  Maybe this echoes the true historical circumstance that the
Romans acquired and compiled their earliest lessons in reasoning from
Hellenic sources and codes (&quot;to compile&quot; = &quot;to plunder&quot;, &quot;to pillage&quot;,
&quot;to pile together in a heap&quot;).  But etymologies can be a tangled lo