To multiplie: to make much more: to augment: to intrease. Aes alienum multiplicare. Cæsar. To runne more and more in debt. Flumina collectis multiplicantur aquis. Ouid. Gloriam multiplicare. Cicer, To augment or increase ones glorie. Grauitas authoris honorem multiplicat. Ouid. Suas vires multiplicare. Ouid. Voces acceptas multiplicare. Pli. To double or multiplie the voices that it receiueth.

I. In gen. (class.; syn.: augeo, amplifico, amplio): aes alienum. Caes. B. C. 3, 32: auxiliis multiplicatis. Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 8, 4: flumina collectis multiplicantur aquis, Ov. R. Am. 98: multiplicandis usuris, Nep. Att. 2, 5: voces, Plin. 36, 15, 23, 99: regnum Eumenis, Liv. 37, 54: multiplicata gloria, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 5, 16: domus multiplicata, enlarged, id. Off. 1, 39, 138: dona, Liv. 42, 61.—

II. In partic., in arithmetic, to multiply: multiplicantur in se duo latera, Col. 5, 2, 1: has duas summas in se multiplicato, id. 5, 2, 6: latitudinis pedes cum longitudinis pedibus sic multiplicabis, id. 5, 2, 3: ter tria, Aus. Idyll. 11, 2: annos quater, dies octies, Sol. 1, 29; 42.