Greatnesse: amplenesse: largenesse: bignesse. Magnitudo solis. Cic. Ampla magnitudo. Plin. Inbabilis magnitudinis nauis. Liu. A thippe of vnwildie bignesse. Inaudita magnitudo, Vide INAVDIO. Iusta magnitudo, Vide IVSTVS. Capere magnitudinem, vide CAPIO. Cogere in magnitudinem, Vide COGO. Complere magnitudinem alicuius rei. Plin. To bee as bigge as a thing. Excedere in nimiam magnitudinem. Celsus. To growe passing measure bigge. Implere magnitudinem suam anno. Plin. To growe to hys bignesse in an yeare. Magnitudo eris alieni. Cic. Greatnesse of debt. Magnitudo periculi. Cic. Magnitudo Pompeij. Plin. Magnitudo animi. Cic. Noble courage. Adhibere magnitudinem animi, Vide ADHIBEO. Conspicuus magnitudine, Vide CONSPICIO.

I. Lit.

A. 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.—

B. 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.—

II. Trop.

A. 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.—

B. 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.