Multiplex, copiosns & varius Plato. Cic.Plato was plentiful, copious, and ful of varietie.Anceps & multiplex verborum potestas in ambiguis. Auth. ad Heren. Doubtful signification of words, and that may be interpreted diuers wayes.Ratio disputandi multiplex.Cic.The manifolde maners or fashions of disputing.Varia res & multiplex. Cice. A thing that hathe diuers and many pointes in it.Sermones multiplices varijq;.Cic.Spatium multiplex transcurrere. Lucret. Terror multiplex.Liu.
Multiplico, multiplicas, pen. cor. multiplicâre. Plin. To multiplie: to make much more: to augment: to intrease.Aes alienum multiplicare. Cæsar. To runne more and more in debt.Flumina collectis multiplicantur aquis.Ouid.Gloriam multiplicare. Cicer, To augment or increase ones glorie.Grauitas authoris honorem multiplicat.Ouid.Suas vires multiplicare.Ouid.Voces acceptas multiplicare. Pli. To double or multiplie the voices that it receiueth.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
multĭ-plex, ĭcis, adj. [multus- plica] (multīplex, Lucr. 2, 163; 4, 208; n.plur. multiplica, Gell. 19, 7, 16), that has many folds (class.). I.Lit.: alvus est multiplex et tortuosa, Cic. N. D. 2, 54, 136.—II.Transf.A.That has many windings or concealed places: vitis serpens multiplici lapsu et erratico, Cic. Sen. 15, 52: domus,
the labyrinth
, Ov. M. 8, 158.—B. In implied comparisons, manifold, many times as great, far more: id efficiebat multiplex gaudium rei, Liv. 7, 8, 1: multiplex caedes utrimque facta traditur ab aliis, i. e.
far greater than I state it
, id. 22, 7, 3: praeda, id. 2, 64, 4.— C.That has many parts, manifold, many, numerous, various: lorica, Verg. A. 5, 264: cortex, Plin. 16, 31, 55, 126: fetus, Cic. N. D. 2, 51: folia, Plin. 18, 7, 10, 58.—Extensive, large, wide, spacious: spatium loci, Lucr. 2, 163: domus, Sen. Hippol. 523: aerumna, Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 3: potestates verborum, Auct. Her. 4, 54, 67: genus orationis, Cic. Brut. 31, 119: multiplices variique sermones, id. Or. 3: large multiplici constructae sunt dape mensae, of many courses or dishes, Cat. 64, 304: multiplex et tortuosum ingenium, i. e.
, Sil. 5, 543.—Hence, adv.: multĭplĭcĭter, in manifold or various ways (mostly post-Aug.): multipliciter fatigari, Sall. Or. 2 ad Caes.: locum intueri, Quint. 7, 4, 22: varie et multipliciter, id. 1, 6, 32: tam saepe ac tam multipliciter, Gell. 14, 1, 21.
multĭplĭco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [multiplex], to multiply, increase, augment. I. In gen. (class.; syn.: augeo, amplifico, amplio): aes alienum. Caes. B. C. 3, 32: auxiliis multiplicatis. Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 8, 4: flumina collectis multiplicantur aquis, Ov. R. Am. 98: multiplicandis usuris, Nep. Att. 2, 5: voces, Plin. 36, 15, 23, 99: regnum Eumenis, Liv. 37, 54: multiplicata gloria, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 5, 16: domus multiplicata,
enlarged
, id. Off. 1, 39, 138: dona, Liv. 42, 61.—II. In partic., in arithmetic, to multiply: multiplicantur in se duo latera, Col. 5, 2, 1: has duas summas in se multiplicato, id. 5, 2, 6: latitudinis pedes cum longitudinis pedibus sic multiplicabis, id. 5, 2, 3: ter tria, Aus. Idyll. 11, 2: annos quater, dies octies, Sol. 1, 29; 42.