excess Copy link Outline I. Too much1. nĭmium (strictly neut. adj.)2. nĭmis (adv.3. expr. by sŭpersum, sŭpĕro4. nĭmiĕtas (not in Cic.)II. Sensual indulgence • excess: I. Too much: 1. nĭmium (strictly neut. adj.): the mean between e. and defect, mediocritas inter n. et parum, Cic.: an e. of good, n. boni, Cic. (Often the adj. nimius in agreement will serve: e. of obstinacy, n. pertinacia, Caes.: to go to an e. in anything, nimium esse in aliqua re, Cic. v. excessive.) 2. nĭmis (adv.: to excess): the rule, nothing in e., (ut) ne quid n., Ter. Andr. 1, 1, 34: Cic.: v. too (much). 3. expr. by sŭpersum, sŭpĕro: I am afraid you will think I exhibit an e. of words instead of a deficiency, vereor ne mihi verba superesse putes, quae dixeram defutura, Cic. Fam. 13, 63 (also opp. to abesse, Cic. de Or. 2, 25, 108): wherein defect or e. is alike faulty, in quo et deesse aliquam partem et superare mendosum est, Cic. de Or. 2, 19, 83. Simly, by redundo: v. redundancy. 4. nĭmiĕtas (not in Cic.): e. of spring fodder (green-meat), n. verni pabuli, Col. 6, 24, ad init.: Pall.: Apul. (N.B. Never excessus. See Lat. Dict. s. v.) II. Sensual indulgence: intempĕrantia, luxŭria: v. intemperance, gluttony, drunkenness.
EXCESS Copy link • EXCESScircumlocution by the adjectives nimius or extremus (e.g., excess of joy, nimia laetitia): quod nimium est (e.g., vehementius offendit, quam id quod videtur parum; Cic.), or by quod superest, superat or (often of faulty excess) redundat: the deficiency of anything in the one is equal to the excess of it in the other, quantum alteri deest alicujus rei, tantum alteri superest: there was no deficiency of this kind of ornament in Antonius, nor excess of it in Crassus, neque in Antonio deerat hic ornatus orationis, neque in Crasso redundabat: to be filled to excess with anything, redundare aliqua re: excess of ornament makes a style tawdry, exornationes si crebrae collocabuntur, oblitam reddunt orationem (Cic.) [☞ exsuperantia is only a great amount of what is good, redundantia, an excess of what is bad: ☞ not nimietas or excessus] to be in excess, redundare (mostly, but not always, of a faulty excess). Excess (moral), intemperantia: libidinum intemperantia (want of moderation in the enjoyment of coarse sensuality and desires, opposed to temperantia): libido: libidines: voluptates libidinosae (excess in sensual enjoyment, especially in love): licentia (arbitrary excess in external manners and order): luxuria (extravagance, luxury in our mode of living): flagitium (an immoral act). All possible excesses, effusae in omni intemperantia libidines: to commit or be guilty of excesses, *licentius, effrenatius vivere; se effundere in libidinibus. To commit excesses, evagari; non temperare sibi; in anything, immodicum, nimium esse in re; modum excedere or modum non tenere in re; effundi in rem or ad rem; se effundere in aliqua re (e.g., in aliqua libidine, Cic.).