Plato was plentiful, copious, and ful of varietie. Anceps & multiplex verborum potestas in ambiguis. Auth. ad Heren. Doubtful signification of words, and that may be interpreted diuers wayes. Ratio disputandi multiplex. Cic. The manifolde maners or fashions of disputing. Varia res & multiplex. Cice. A thing that hathe diuers and many pointes in it. Sermones multiplices varijq;. Cic. Spatium multiplex transcurrere. Lucret. Terror multiplex. Liu.

I. Lit.: alvus est multiplex et tortuosa, Cic. N. D. 2, 54, 136.—

II. Transf.

A. That has many windings or concealed places: vitis serpens multiplici lapsu et erratico, Cic. Sen. 15, 52: domus, the labyrinth, Ov. M. 8, 158.—

B. In implied comparisons, manifold, many times as great, far more: id efficiebat multiplex gaudium rei, Liv. 7, 8, 1: multiplex caedes utrimque facta traditur ab aliis, i. e. far greater than I state it, id. 22, 7, 3: praeda, id. 2, 64, 4.—

C. That has many parts, manifold, many, numerous, various: lorica, Verg. A. 5, 264: cortex, Plin. 16, 31, 55, 126: fetus, Cic. N. D. 2, 51: folia, Plin. 18, 7, 10, 58.—Extensive, large, wide, spacious: spatium loci, Lucr. 2, 163: domus, Sen. Hippol. 523: aerumna, Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 3: potestates verborum, Auct. Her. 4, 54, 67: genus orationis, Cic. Brut. 31, 119: multiplices variique sermones, id. Or. 3: large multiplici constructae sunt dape mensae, of many courses or dishes, Cat. 64, 304: multiplex et tortuosum ingenium, i. e. inconstant, changeable. fickle, Cic. Lael. 18, 65: animus, id. ib. 25, 92: natura, id. Cael. 6, 14: vir multiplex in virtutibus, Vell. 2, 105, 2: ingenium, dexterous, sly, Cic. Att. 6, 2, 2.—Poet.: multiplex avis, rich in ancestors, Sil. 5, 543.—Hence, adv.: multĭplĭcĭter, in manifold or various ways (mostly post-Aug.): multipliciter fatigari, Sall. Or. 2 ad Caes.: locum intueri, Quint. 7, 4, 22: varie et multipliciter, id. 1, 6, 32: tam saepe ac tam multipliciter, Gell. 14, 1, 21.