A thing that is very weighty & great: huge greatnesse: a great pyle, heape, or danune made in a tiner or in the sea to stoppe the water: difficulty. India molibus ferarum mirabilis. Col. India is merueylous for the huge great beastes that be in it. Tota mole corporis, totóque pondere nititur. Cic. With the whole bignesse and weight of the bodie. Magna se mole ferre. Virg. Moles gigantum. Cic. The huge great bignesse of ginntes. Alta moles montis. Sil. Prærupra moles. Ouid. Immanis moles. Virg. Stat saxea moles. Star. Ingens moles. Virg. Stiuctæ moles. Tac. Æriam molem equcere. Stat. Extruere moles opere magnifico. Cic. To erect great buil. ding with sumptuous worke. Moles in mars dicitur. Cicer. A great pyle or bulwarke in the sea. Opponere floctibus moles. Cic. A great pile is made against the streame. Iácere moles ab vtroque portus cornu. Cicer. To cast piled or bulwarkes on both sides of the hauen. Iacere in mare moles. Horat. Positæ moles. Iuuen. Immensam attollere molem. Virg. Tantæ molis erat Romanam condere gentem. Virgil. So harde or great a matter it was to beginne and stablish the nation of the Romaines. Curarum moles. Tacit. Iniuriæ molem sustinere. Cic. To abide or suslaine the great juiurie or wrong that one doth to him. Mali molem ceruicibus luis depellere. Cic. To putte from himselfe the great mischiefe that he is in danger of. Moles, pro motu. Moouing. vt, Densa mole seruntur ad muros. Virg. They went in a plump togither to the wals. Tarda mole se ferre homines crassi dicuntur. To go softely: to walow forwarde slowly.

The great malow or holihocke.

I. Lit.

A. In gen. (poet.): Chaos, rudis indigestaque moles, Ov. M. 1, 7: vastā se mole moventem Pastorem Polyphemum, Verg. A. 3, 656: taurus et ipsa mole piger, Juv. 12, 12: stetit aequore moles Pinea, i. e. a fleet of large ships, Prop. 4 (5), 6, 19.—

B. Esp.

1. A mass, pile, a cliff or ridge of rock: in mole sedens, Ov. M. 2, 12; 13, 923.—

2. A mass or pile of waves: venti, tantas audetis tollere moles, Verg. A. 1, 134; 5, 790.—

3. A huge, massive structure, esp. of stone; a dam, pier, mole; a foundation, etc. (freq. and class.): molem atque aggerem ab utrāque parte litoris jaciebat, Caes. B. C. 1, 25: moles oppositae fluctibus, moles, Cic. Off. 2, 4, 14; cf. id. Verr. 2, 4, 53, 118: aditus insulae muniti mirificis molibus, id. Att. 4, 16, 13: exstructa moles opere magnifico, incisaeque litterae, virtutis testes sempiternae, a monument, id. Phil. 14, 12, 33: moles propinqua nubibus, Hor. C. 3, 29, 10: insanae substructionum moles, huge buildings, piles, Cic. Mil. 31, 85; Hor. C. 3, 1, 34: sepulcri moles, i. e. a tomb, Luc. 8, 865: molem aggeris ultra venire, Juv. 16, 26.—

4. A huge engine or machine, used at sieges: velut celsam oppugnat qui molibus urbem, Verg. A. 5, 439.—

5. Warlike apparatus, munitions of war: belli, Tac. H. 1, 61: non alias majore mole concursum, with a greater mass, id. A. 2, 46.—

II. Trop.

A. Greatness, might, power, strength, great quantity, heap: moles pugnae, Liv. 26, 6: molem invidiae austinere, Cic. Cat. 1, 9, 23; cf.: moles mali, id. ib. 3, 7, 17: vis consili expers mole ruit suā, Hor. C. 3, 4, 65: rerum, Suet. Aug. 84: fortunae, Tac. A. 15, 52: Herculea, Sil. 12, 143: densā ad muros mole feruntur, a vast crowd, immense body, Verg. A. 12, 575: curarum, multitude, crowd, Tac. A. 12, 66: tantae corporum moles in fugam consternati sunt, Liv. 38, 46, 4.—

B. Difficulty, labor, trouble: transveham naves haud magnā mole, without great difficulty, Liv. 25, 11: tantae molis erat Romanam condere gentem, so much labor did it cost, Verg. A. 1, 33: Corbuloni plus molis adversus ignaviam militum, quam, etc., Tac. A. 13, 35.