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lātĭtūdo , ĭnis, f. 1. latus,
I.breadth, width of any thing (class.).
I. Lit.: “in hac immensitate latitudinum, longitudinum, altitudinum,” Cic. N. D. 1, 20, 54: “fossae,” Caes. B. G. 2, 12: “castra amplius milibus passuum VIII. in latitudinem patebant,” id. ib. 2, 7 fin.: “patere in latitudinem,” id. ib. 2, 8; Plin. 3 prooem. § 3; cf. Quint. 1, 10, 42; 11, 3, 141: “vires umerorum et latitudines ad aratra extrahenda,” Cic. N. D. 2, 63, 159. —
B. Transf., in gen., extent, size, compass: “possessionum,” Cic. Agr. 2, 26, 67.—
II. Trop. (very rare): “verborum,” a broad pronunciation, Cic. de Or. 2, 22, 91: Platonica, richness or copiousness of expression, Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 5 (for the Gr. πλατύτης τῆς ἑρμη νείας, called amplitudo Platonis, Cic. Or. 1, 5).
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (10):
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 2.12
    • Cicero, On the Agrarian Law, 2.26.67
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 2.22
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 3
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 1.10.5
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 1.20
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 2.63
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 1, 10.42
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 11, 3.141
    • Cicero, Orator, 1.5
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