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Gallia est omnis dīvīsa in partēs trēs, quārum ūnam incolunt Belgae.

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Contents (2 entries · 12 senses)
S&H Smith & Hall (1)
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Digitized by Distributed Proofreaders from William Smith and Theophilus D. Hall, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Dictionary (1871), and generously placed into the public domain.
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• multitude:
    1. I. A great number:
      1. 1. multĭtūdo: a m. of ships, m. navium, Caes. B. G. 5, 8: Cic.
      2. 2. expr. by multi, ae, a; or stronger, plurimi: v. many. In like manner, such a m., tot: v. many (so).
      3. 3. vis, vim, vi, f. (a very large number or great abundance of anything: "a host"): an immense n. (or quantity) of frogs, vis maxima ranunculorum, Cic. Fam. 7, 18, fin.: see also host (II.). (N.B.--Beware of silva in this sense; it denotes the subject matter of a science: cf. Cic. de Or. 3, 30, init.)
    2. II. A great number of people:
      1. 1. multĭtūdo: so vast a m., tanta m., Caes. B. G. 2., 6: Cic.: in this sense, may be foll. by hominum: Cic. Caec. 12, 33. Join: quanta multitudo, quanta vis hominum, id. Verr. 2, 2, 66, 160.
      2. 2. vis hominum: cf. supr. (I., 3).
      3. 3. turba (a m. in confusion): v. crowd, throng.
      4. 4. coetus., ūs (an assemblage of any kind): Cic.: Suet.
    3. III. The common run of men, as distinguished from the more select few:
      1. 1. vulgus, i, n. (rarely m.): there is no wisdom in the m., non est consilium in v., Cic. Pl. 4, 9: adapted to please the m., gratum in vulgus., id. Att. 2, 22: Virg.: Hor.
      2. 2. multĭtūdo (a less offensive expr. than preceding): to depend upon the errors of the ignorant m., ex errore imperitae m. pendere, Cic. Off. 1, 19, 65: the credulous m., credula m., Just. 2, 8, fin. Phr.: one of the m. (a person of no distinction), unus e multis, Cic. Fin. 2., 20, fin.: also, unus de multis, id. Off. 1, 30, 109.
R&A Riddle & Arnold (1)
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J. E. Riddle and T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. Data retrieved from FergusJPWalsh/riddle-arnold under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
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• MULTITUDE
multitudo (general term): magnus numerus (great number): acervus (a heap of things lying together): turba (a confused multitude or heap; of persons or things): nubes (a great or dense multitude of things or living creatures like a cloud; but ☞ since regard must always be had to the shape of a cloud, it is not Latin to say nubes exemplorum for multa exempla or magna copia exemplorum): silva (a mass of materials from tuck one can make a choice; but only of mental operations; e.g., silva rerum et sententiarum; silva observationum; silva virtutum et vitiorum), vis (a number of persons or things, considered as containing power or energy): caterva, agmen (a band, troop of persons): copia (sufficiency of things needful or useful; hence of persons only when they are considered as means or instruments; e.g., armatorum, virorum fortium copia): frequentia (a number of persons present; also, of things): vulgus (the common people): sexcenti is often employed in Latin to denote an indefinitely large number; e.g., I received a multitude of letters at once, sexcentas litteras uno tempore accepi: an innumerable multitude, multitudo, copia incredibilis; vis magna: one of the multitude (of people), unus e or de multis: to have a multitude of, abundare, redundare, affluere aliqua re; plenum esse alicujus rei.