vastness

vastĭtas, ātis, f. [vastus], an empty place, a waste, desert.

Lit.: te propter tot tantasque habemus vastitatis funerum, Att. ap. Non. 417, 12 (Trag. Rel. v. 175 Rib.):

audistis, quae solitudo in agris esset, quae vastitas, quae fuga aratorum, quam deserta, quam inculta, quam relicta omnia,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 5, § 114; so (with solitudo) Tac. A. 13, 55:

judiciorum et fori,

Cic. Brut. 6, [p. 1960] 21.—

Transf. (acc. to vastus, II.).

Desolation, devastation, ruin, destruction:

cum caedem a vobis, vastitatem a templis, urbe, Italiā depellebam,

Cic. Fl. 1, 1:

Italiam totam ad exitium et vastitatem vocas,

id. Cat. 1, 5, 12:

vastitatem efficere,

id. Pis. 35, 85:

inferre vastitatem tectis atque agris,

id. Har. Resp. 2, 3:

ut studiis civilibus bellum atque vastitas Italiae finem faceret,

Sall. J. 5, 2:

vastitatem reddere,

Liv. 3, 26, 2:

et plus vastitatis hinc urbi secunda nostra fortuna faciet, quam adversa fecit?

id. 5, 51, 3:

fugam ac vastitatem late fecerunt,

id. 8, 9, 12:

protritis arboribus ac frugibus dira vastitas,

Tac. H. 2, 70.—

Trop., of persons:

et has duplices pestis sociorum, publicanorum ruinas, provinciarum vastitates,

destroyers, Cic. Prov. Cons. 6, 13.—

Terrible size, hugeness, immensity, vastness (post-Aug.;

but cf. vastus, II. B.): beluae pari vastitate,

of like vast size, Col. 3, 8, 3:

roborum Hercyniae silvae,

Plin. 16, 2, 2, § 6; cf.:

immensa aequorum,

id. 3, praef. 1, §

1: hostis formidandae vastitatis,

Gell. 9, 13, 4:

caeli,

Plin. 2, 41, 41, § 110:

solis,

id. 2, 11, 8, § 49:

odoris,

id. 31, 6, 32, § 60:

vocis,

Col. 1, 9, 2. —

Trop.:

vastitas instantis laboris,

the fearful magnitude, immensity, vastness, Col. 4, 18, 2:

scientiae rei rusticae,

id. 5, 1, 1.

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ēnormĭtas, ātis, f. [enormis] (postAug.).

Irregularity, Quint. 9, 4, 27.—

Hugeness, vastness, enormous size, Sen. Const. Sap. 18:

onerum,

Veg. Vet. 2, 54; 59 Bip.; Spart. Carac. 2; Capitol. Gord. 29 al.

immānĭtas, ātis, f. [immanis].

Monstrous size, hugeness, vastness, excess (very rare, but class.):

serpens inusitatae immanitatis,

Gell. 6, 3, 1:

vitiorum,

Cic. Cael. 6, 14:

frigoris,

Just. 2, 1.—

Monstrousness, enormity, heinousness, savageness, fierceness, cruelty, barbarism (so most freq.):

ista in figura hominis feritas et immanitas beluae,

Cic. Off. 3, 6, 32:

feritas quaedam atque agrestis immanitas,

id. Div. 1, 29, 60; cf.:

multas esse gentes sic immanitate efferatas ut, etc.,

id. N. D. 1, 23, 62:

omni diritate atque immanitate taeterrimus,

id. Vatin. 3, 9:

inter feras satius est aetatem degere, quam in tanta immanitate versari,

in such barbarism, id. Rosc. Am. 52, 150:

asperitas et immanitas naturae,

id. Lael. 23, 87:

morum immanitate vastissimas vincit beluas,

id. Rep. 2, 26:

in animo, stupor in corpore,

id. Tusc. 3, 6, 12; cf.:

temperantiam immanitas in voluptatibus aspernandis imitatur,

id. Part. 23, 81:

M. Antonii tanta est non insolentia (nam id quidem vulgare vitium est), sed immanitas, non modo ut, etc.,

id. Fam. 10, 1, 1:

tanti facinoris immanitas,

id. Cat. 1, 6, 14:

parricidii,

Quint. 9, 2, 53:

priorum temporum,

Plin. Pan. 47, 1:

ista verborum,

Cic. Fin. 4, 9 fin. (v. Madv. ad h. l.).

magnĭtūdo, ĭnis, f. [id.], greatness, size, bulk, magnitude (class.).

Lit.

Silvestres apes minores sunt magnitudine, in size, Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 19:

mundi,

Cic. Off. 1, 43, 154:

maris Aegaei,

id. Fin. 3, 14, 45:

fluminis,

Caes. B. C. 1, 49:

corporum,

id. B. G. 1, 39:

ad fabae magnitudinem,

of the size of, as large as, Cels. 5, 25, 4:

habebat ursos ferociae ac magnitudini suae simillimos,

Lact. Mort. Pers. 21, 5:

Goliath quidam, vir mirae magnitudinis et roboris,

Sulp. Sev. Chron. 1, 34, 3:

elephantus ferus infinitae magnitudinis ultro se obtulit,

Just. 15, 4, 19.— Plur.:

magnitudines regionum,

Cic. Phil. 13, 3, 5.—

Of number and amount, a great number, great quantity, abundance, great amount:

copiarum,

Nep. Dat. 1:

fructuum,

Cic. Agr. 2, 35, 95:

pecuniae,

id. Rosc. Am. 7, 20:

quaestus,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 9, § 22.—

Trop.

In gen., greatness, vastness, extent:

magnitudo et vis amoris,

Cic. Fam. 2, 7, 2:

acerbitatis et odii,

id. Deiot. 11, 30:

beneficii,

id. Fam. 1, 7, 2:

periculi,

id. Quint. 2, 6:

doloris,

Plin. 25, 3, 7, § 24:

ingenii,

id. 25, 2, 3, § 7:

animi,

greatness of soul, Cic. Part. 23, 81.— Rhetorically: vocis, the strength or compass of the voice, Auct. Her. 3, 11, 20.— Of time: dierum ac noctium magnitudines, length, Plin 36, 10, 15, § 72.—

In partic., rank, dignity (post-Aug.):

imperatoria,

Tac. A. 16, 23:

infra tuam magnitudinem,

beneath your dignity, id. ib. 14, 54. —Hence, in late Lat., as a title of honor, highness, excellency:

magnitudo tua,

Cassiod. Var. 9, 13; Cod. Just. 1, 27, 2.

prŏfundĭtas, ātis, f. [profundus], depth (post - class.).

Lit.:

corporum tres sunt dimensiones, longitudo, latitudo, profunditas,

Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 6, 36:

aquarum,

Cassiod. Var. 2, 21.—

Trop., vastness, immensity, Hadrian. ap. Vop. Sat. 8:

disciplinae,

Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 7, 3:

prudentiae,

id. ib. 1, 3, 12:

ingenii,

id. ib. 2, 2, 1.—

Depth, intensity, darkness:

tenebrarum,

Macr. S. 1, 20, 1.