Plenteous: aboundant: rych: hauing great knowledge or eloquence: copious. Vrbs celebris & copiosa. Cicero. A citie of great haunt and well peopled. Amplum & copiosum patrimonium. Cic. A great and wealthy heritage. Lautum & copiosum patrimonium. Cic. Copiosa planè, & locuples mulier. Cic. Copiosum Senatusconsultum. Plin. iun. A long decree of the Senate. Tenuis & Copiosus victus, contraria. Cic. Doctus & copiosus homo & paratus. Cice. A man learned and of great knowledge. Copiosus homo ad dicendum, & in dicendo. Cicero. A very eloquent man. Rebus omnibus ornatus & copiosus. Cicer. Furnished and hauing great store of all thinges. Copiosa disputatio. Cic. A large disconrse. Copiosa & elegans oratio. Cic. Fieri copiosiorem legendo aliquid. Cic. To become of more knowledge and eloquence. Copiosissimum ingenium. Plin. iun. Ager Creticus syluestrium caprarum copiosus est. Solinus. Hath great store of. Copiosus re cibaria. Gellius. Copiosus frumento exercitus. Cicer. An armie well furntshed, or hauing great prouision of corne.

I. Furnished abundantly with a thing, well supplied, having abundance, rich, copious, plentiful, abounding (in wealth, means of living, etc.) (very freq. and class., esp. in prose).

A. In gen.; constr. with abl., ab, or absol.; rarely with gen.

(a). With simple abl. or ab and abl.: tu agris, tu aedificiis, tu argento, tu familiā, tu rebus omnibus ornatus et copiosus sis, Cic. Cat. 2, 8, 18: Arion grandi pecuniā et re bonā multā coplosus, Gell. 16, 19, 7: oppidum re cibariā, id. 7, 1, 8: Bruttedius artibus honestis, Tac. A. 3, 66: locus a frumento, Cic. Att. 5, 18, 2.—

(b). Absol. (so most freq.): copiosa plane et locuples (mulier), Cic. Div. in Caecil. 17, 55: urbs, id. Arch. 3, 4: via copiosa omniumque rerum abundans, Nep. Eum. 8, 5; cf. stativa, Liv. 9, 44, 9: patrimonium, Cic. Rosc. Am. 2, 6; id. Rab. Post. 14, 38 al.: ingenium facile et copiosum, fertile in expedients, rich, Quint. 10, 1, 128: ratio loquendi, id. 2, 1, 4.—Comp.: provincia, Auct. B. Alex. 43. —Sup.: copiosissimum oppidum, Caes. B. G. 1, 23: copiosissimus ac sollertissimus hostis, Suet. Caes. 35: cucumeres, Plin. 19, 5, 23, 65.—

(g). With gen.: ager silvestrium caprarum, Sol. 11, 11; cf. 1. copis. —

(d). With ad: quamquam erat provincia minime copiosa ad alendos exercitus, Auct. B. Alex. 42.—

B. In partic., of an orator, or of discourse, rich in language, copious in expression, eloquent: homo copiosus ad dicendum, Cic. Caecin. 23, 64: lingua (opp. inops), id. Fin. 3, 15, 51: densior ille, hic copiosior in eloquendo, Quint. 1, 1, 106: oratores, id. 12, 5, 5: vir, Liv. 45, 25, 3: multa et varia et copiosa oratio, Cic. de Or. 2, 53, 214: loquacitas, Quint. 8, 2, 17; opp. jejunum, id. 8, 3, 49.—

II. Existing in rich abundance, copious (very rare): liquor putei, Phaedr. 4, 9, 7: varietas rerum abundat, id. 5, 6, 2: supellex verborum, Quint. 8, prooem. 28.—Hence, cōpĭōsē, adv. (very freq.), in great abundance, copiously, abundantly, plentifully, copiously provided.

1. In gen.: sic copiose in provinciam profectus erat, ut, etc., Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 36, 91: large et copiose comparare pastum, id. N. D. 2, 47, 121: accepti tribus tricliniis, id. Att. 13, 52, 2: senatorum urna copiose absolvit, by a large majority, id. Q. Fr. 2, 4, 6: ornatus, id. Verr. 2, 4, 27, 62.—

2. Esp., of discourse, copiously, fully, at length: copiose ab eo agri cultura laudatur, Cic. Sen. 17, 59: copiose et abundanter loqui, id. de Or. 2, 35, 151: defendere causas reorum, id. Verr. 2, 2, 78, 191: dicere, id. N. D. 1, 21, 58; Quint. 1, 4, 5.—Comp.: dicere, Cic. Or. 4, 14: haec omnia exsequi, Quint. 9, 3, 89.—Sup.: dicere, Cic. Clu. 10, 29; id. de Or. 1, 62, 263; id. Off. 1, 1, 4: laudare, id. de Or. 2, 10, 39: defensum esse, id. Quint. 28, 87: locus tractatur, Quint. 2, 4, 24.