copiousness Copy link Outline 1. cōpia2. ūbertas • copiousness: 1. cōpia: esp. of diction: c. dicendi, Cic.: abundance of matter produces c. of language, rerum c. verborum e. gignit, Cic.: c. of invention, inventionis c., Quint. 2. ūbertas: more fully ubertas in dicendo et copia, Cic.: in pl. copiae ubertatesque verborum, Gell. (N.B. Copia dicendi by itself is more comprehensive than the English: cf. Cic. Or. 3, 34, 138: where it includes the entire resources of oratory.)
COPIOUSNESS Copy link • COPIOUSNESScopia: abundantia (abundance): rerum frequentia (of matter, as Cic., De Or., 2, 13, 56; Thucydides creber est rerum frequentia). Copiousness of thought, crebritas sententiarum (Cic., Brut., 95, 325).