crowd (subs.) Copy link Outline I. Of people.1. turba (a number of persons without order)2. vulgus, i, m. and n. (the common herd, the multitude3. frĕquentia (a number of persons or things close together)4. concursus, ūs (of people flocking together)5. cĕlebrĭtas (strictly an abstract subs.II. Of other things • crowd (subs.): I. Of people. 1. turba (a number of persons without order): the praetor's house filled with a c., domus praetoria, turbâ referta, Cic.: a c. of unknown gods, t. ignotorum deorum, Cic.: a c. of disciples, discipulorum t., Quint. 2. vulgus, i, m. and n. (the common herd, the multitude: always used contemptuously): v. multitude. 3. frĕquentia (a number of persons or things close together): a very great c. of people, summa hominum f., Cic.: v. throng. 4. concursus, ūs (of people flocking together): a c. assembles in the streets, fit c. per vias, Pl.: great c.s assembled, magni c. sunt facti, Nep. 5. cĕlebrĭtas (strictly an abstract subs.: thus Cic. has celebritas loci in sense of the crowdedness or fashionableness of a place: Fam. 14, 1, fin.): I hate a c.; I avoid men, odi celebritatem; fugio homines, Cic.: more fully celebritas virorum ac mulierum, id. See also multitude, rabble. II. Of other things: chiefly in fig. sense; as, a c. of thoughts, *turba, frequentia, multitudo cogitationum (?): v. multitude. Phr.: what a c. of thoughts come rushing into the mind, *quot res mentem subeunt: quarum rerum in mentem venit!