large Copy link Outline 1. grandis (applicable to whatever is large of its kind)2. magnus (v. GREAT)3. amplus • large: 1. grandis (applicable to whatever is large of its kind): l. turbots, g. rhombi, Hor. S. 2, 2, 95: l. stones, g. saxa, Caes. B. G. 7, 23: Plin.: a very l. sum of money, g. pecunia, Cic. Rab. Post. 2, 4. Hence, rather l., subgrandis or suggrandis (v. rare), Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 1, 1; very l., pergrandis, Cic.: Pl. 2. magnus (v. great): a l. and beautiful mansion, *domus m. pulchraque, Cic. N. D. 2, 6, 17: to pick out the largest seeds, maxima quaeque semina manu legere, Virg. G. 1, 199: a l. sum of money, m. pecunia, Cic. Att. 11, 3. 3. amplus: v. spacious. (N.B.--Largus is copious, abundant, rather than large.) Phr.: at large, solutus: I wander at l., solutus (sc. catena) vagor, Phaedr. 3, 7, 20: cf. Cic. Tusc. 1, 31, 75, qui in compedibus corporis semper fuerunt, etiam quum soluti sunt, even when they are set at l.: so, emitti e custodia et levari vinculis, Cic. Tusc. 1, 49, 118. See also length (at).