Amplio, amplias, ampliâre. To make more: to draw to: to delay in iudgement: to reprie.Ampliare ætatis spatium. Mart. To molong, &c.Ampliare vires. Plin. To increase.Ampliat vrbem. Lucan. He enlargeth.Ampliare plagam. Cels. To make the wound greater.Ampliare rem Horat.To increase his substance.Ampliare seruitia. Tac. To increase the number of, &c.Ampliare reum.Cic.To deferre vntill an other time: to reprie.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
amplĭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [amplus], to make wider, to extend, enlarge, increase, amplify (rare, esp. before the Aug. per.; mostly in prose). I. In gen.: amplianda scalpello plaga est, Cels. 7, 5: rem (familiarem), Hor. S. 1, 4, 32: de ampliando numero, Plin. Pan. 54, 4; so Suet. Ner. 22: orbem, Luc. 3, 276: servitia, Tac. H. 2, 78: ampliato vetere Apollinis templo, Suet. Aug. 18 al.—B.Trop.: nomen,
to render glorious
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to ennoble
, Mart. 8, 66: Hannibalis bellicis laudibus ampliatur virtus Scipionis, Quint. 8, 4, 20: pulcritudinem, Vulg. Judith, 10, 4. —II. Esp., judic. t. t., to delay judgment or decision, to adjourn, in order to make further investigation (since the judges in such cases employed the expression AMPLIVS or NON LIQVET, v. amplius, c. and Rupert. ad Tac. Or. 38, 1, p. 455). A.Absol.: potestas ampliandi, Cic. Caecin. 10: lex ampliandi facit potestatem, id. Verr. 2, 1, 9, 26.—B. With acc. of pers., to defer his business: istum hominem nefarium ampliaveritis, Auct. ad Her. 4, 36: virginem, Liv. 4, 44: bis ampliatus reus tertio absolutus est, id. 43, 2.—C. With acc. of thing. causam, Val. Max. 8, 1, 16: poenam, Sen. Contr. 1, 3; cf. ampliatio and comperendinatio.
