Thicke: hard cloled togither: compacte: plenceous. Densum & Rarum, contraria. Virg. Aer densus. Hor. A grosse and thicke aire. Agmen densum. Virg. An armie thicke togither. Amores densi. Virg. Often loue. Amplexus densi. Val. Flac. Densus Aquilo dicitur, quòd nubes condenset. Virgil. That congealeth cloudes. Armis densis circunfundi. Virg. To compasse with souldiors thicke on euerie side. Asperitas densa frigoris. Ouid. Austris densis nigerrimus imber. Virg. Buxum densum folijs. Ouid. Caligo densa. Virg. Caput densum cæsarie. Ouid. A head hauing a thicke bushe of haire. Chaos densum. Sen. Cohortes densæ. Claud. Corpora densissima duris setis. Ouid. Thicke set with harde bristles. Ficus densissima pomis. Ouid. Full of fruite, or loded with fruite. Folia densa. Plin. Fremitu denso circunstare aliquem. Virg. To stande thicke about one, and make a noise. Frondes densæ. Virg. Frutices densi. Ouid. Funale densum lampadibus. Ouid. Hostis densissimus. Ouid. In hostes densos fertur. Virg. Hee rusheth into the thickest of the enimies. Ictibus densis pulsare aliquem. Vir. To lay thicke and three folde vpon one: to strike thicke. Imber densissimus. Virg. A thicke showre of raine. Iuba densa. Virg. A thicke mane. Labor densus. Val. Flac. Continuall labour. Lacus densus nube. Claud. A marris conered with a thicke mist. Loca densa nemoris. Sen. Thickets. Loca syluestribus sepibus densa. Cic. Thicke with hedges. Lucus densus iuncis. Ouid. Full of bulrushes. Luna densa imbribus. Valer. Flac. A Moone that hathe often raine. Malorum densorum turba. Ouid. Acic densi milites. Virg. Souldiours thicke in aray. Nebula densa. Liu. Nemus densum arboribus. Ouid. Nimbi densi. Ouid. Nox densissima. Ouid. Nubes densæ. Ouid. Nubila densa. Virg. Pecudes densæ. Stat. Pericula densa. Ouid. Pingue densum. Virg. Plagis densis extricata cerua. Horat. Sentes densi. Virg. Thicke brambles. Series densior gestorum. Claud. Soboles densior. Virg. Abundant issue. Sues densæ. Col. Swine hauing thicke bristles. Silua densa. Cic. Tela densissima. Virg. Tellus densior aere. Ouid. Tenebræ densæ. Sil. Densa & glutinosa terra. Col. Thicke and clammie earth. -densis terroribus aulam Fama quatir. Claud. Trabibus densis vmbrosa templa. Ouid. Turba densa Seneca. Vmbra densa. Virg. Vortices densi Ouid.

I. Lit.

1. In space: ne dum variantia rerum Tanta queat densis rarisque ex ignibus esse, Lucr. 1, 654; cf. Verg. G. 1, 419 (for which densatus et laxatus aër, Quint. 5, 9, 16); and: (terra) Rara sit an supra morem si densa requiras ... Densa magis Cereri, rarissima quaeque Lyaeo, Verg. G. 2, 227 sq.: densa et glutinosa terra, Col. praef. 24: silva, poëta ap. Cic. Att. 12, 15; cf.: densiores silvae, Caes. B. G. 3, 29, 2: densissimae silvae, id. ib. 4, 38, 3: lucus densissimae opacitatis, Front. Strat. 1, 11, 10: denso corpore nubes, Lucr. 6, 361; cf.: denso agmine, id. 6, 100; so, agmen (sc. navium), Verg. A. 5, 834: densum umeris vulgus, Hor. Od. 2, 13, 32 et saep.: tunicae, Plin. 11, 23, 27, 77: zmaragdi, id. 37, 5, 18, 68: litus, sandy, Ov. M. 2, 576; cf. Verg. G. 2, 275: aequor, i. e. frozen. Luc. 2, 640: aër, Hor. Od. 2, 7, 14; cf. caelum, Cels. 1 praef.; 3, 22: nimbi, Ov. M. 1, 269: caligo, Verg. A. 12, 466; cf.: densissima nox, pitch-dark night, Ov. M. 15, 31: umbra, Catull. 65, 13; Hor. Od. 1, 7, 20 et saep.— Without distinction, corresp. with crassus, Lucr. 6, 246 al.—

b. Poet. with abl., thickly set with, covered with, full of: loca silvestribus sepibus densa, poëta ap. Cic. N. D. 1, 42 fin.; cf.: specus virgis ac vimine, Ov. M. 3, 29: vallis piceis et acuta cupressu, id. ib. 3, 155: Thybris verticibus, id. F. 6, 502: ficus pomis, id. ib. 2, 253: corpora setis, id. M. 13, 846; cf. id. Am. 3, 1, 32: femina crinibus emptis, id. A. A. 3, 165: funale lampadibus, id. M. 12, 247: trames caligine opaca (coupled with obscurus), id. ib. 10, 54 et saep.—

B. Transf., of the parts themselves which are crowded together, thick, close, set close: superiorem partem collis densissimis castris (sc. trinis) compleverant, pitched very near together, Caes. B. G. 7, 46, 3: sepes, id. ib. 2, 22: frutices, Ov. M. 1, 122: ilex, id. F. 2, 165 et saep.: hostes, Verg. A. 2, 511: ministri, id. M. 2, 717: densior suboles, Verg. G. 3, 308: dens (pectinis), Tib. 1, 9, 68: comae, Ov. Am. 1, 14, 42; cf. pilae, id. F. 2, 348 et saep.— Poet.: densorum turba malorum, Ov. Tr. 5, 6, 41.—

2. In time, of things which take place in close succession, thick, frequent, continuous (mostly poet.): ictus, Verg. A. 5, 459; cf. plagae, Hor. Od. 3, 5, 31: Aquilo, strong, powerful, Verg. G. 3, 196: silentia, deep, profound, Val. Fl. 3, 604: amores, Verg. G. 4, 347: pericula, Ov. P. 4, 7, 15: usus, id. ib. 4, 3, 15: ictus, Amm. 15, 5, 31. —

II. Trop. of speech, condensed, concise: vox atrox in ira, et aspera ac densa, coarse, Quint. 11, 3, 63: tanta vis in eo (sc. Demosthene) tam densa omnia, etc., id. 10, 1, 76; cf. transf. to the writer himself: densior ille (sc. Demosthenes), hic (sc. Cicero) copiosior, ib. 106: densus et brevis et semper instans sibi Thucydides, ib. 73: (Euripides) sententiis densus, ib. 68.— Adv.: densē (very rare).

1. In space, thickly, closely, close together: caesae alni, Plin. 16, 37, 67, 173: calcatum quam densissime, Vitr. 5, 12 med.: milites densius se commovebant, Amm. 24, 6, 8.—

2. (Acc. to no. I. B. 2.) In time, frequently, rapidly, one after the other: quod in perpetuitate dicendi eluceat aliquando, idem apud alios densius, apud alios fortasse rarius, Cic. Or. 2, 7: nulla tamen subeunt mihi tempora densius istis, Ov. P. 1, 9, 11: replicatis quaestionibus dense, Amm. 29, 3 fin.