oppidum+stadiorum+lxx+amplitudine

amplĭtūdo, ĭnis, f. [amplus], in space, wide extent, breadth, width, amplitude, size, bulk (class., but only in prose).

Lit.:

membrorum,

Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 3:

simulacrum modicā amplitudine,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 49:

urbis,

Liv. 7, 30:

oppidum stadiorum LXX. amplitudine,

Plin. 6, 26, 30, § 119:

platanus adolescit in amplitudinem,

id. 12, 1, 3, § 7:

corporis,

Plin. Ep. 6, 16, 3:

Apollo amplitudinis et artis eximiae,

Suet. Tib. 74:

margaritarum,

id. Caes. 47:

valli,

Tac. H. 4, 22:

numeri,

Gell. 19, 8, 12 al. —In plur.:

amplitudines bonorum,

Cic. Fin. 4, 7, 18.—

Trop.

With gen., greatness:

animi,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 26, 64:

harum rerum splendor, amplitudo,

id. Off. 1, 20, 67:

rerum gestarum,

Nep. Att. 18: fortunae, Plin. praef. 3: [p. 111] opum, id. 3, 4, 5, § 31.—In plur.:

amplitudines virtutum,

Gell. 4, 9.—

Absol., dignity, grandeur, distinction, consequence (more general than dignitas, auctoritas, etc.; cf. Manut. ad Cic. Fam. 1, 5;

Hab. Syn. 363): amplitudo est potentiae aut majestatis aut aliquarum copiarum magna abundantia,

Cic. Inv. 2, 55, 166:

homines, in quibus summa auctoritas est et amplitudo,

id. Rosc. Am. 1:

majestas est amplitudo et dignitas civitatis,

id. de Or. 2, 39:

ad summam amplitudinem pervenire,

id. Brut. 81, 281:

amplitudinem suam retinere,

id. Fam. 1, 4:

amplitudinem alicujus augere,

Liv. 39, 48 al. —

In rhet., copiousness and dignity of expression:

in his finis est amplitudo,

Cic. Inv. 2, 16 fin., which see in full:

uberi dignitas atque amplitudo est,

Gell. 6, 14, 3.—Specifically:

amplitudo Platonis,

Cic. Or. 1 fin., for the Gr. platutês tês hermêneias (Diog. L. 3, 4), which is by Plin. Ep. 1, 10, more literally called Platonica latitudo. —So of metre:

amplitudo dactyli ac paeonis,

the fulness, richness, Quint. 9, 4, 136; cf. id. 5, 14, 30.