Deepe. Fornax profunda. Ouid. Fretum profundum. Seneca. Inane. Lucret. Mare profundum & immensum. Cic. Pontus profundus. Virg. Sinus. Sen. Tartara profunda. Sen. Stagna profunda. Ouid. Valles profundæ, Stat. Profundus. Virg. High. Cœlum profundum. Virg. High heauen. Profunda altitudo. Liu. Greatheight or deepenesse. Syluæ profundæ. Lucrer. High woods. Profunda auaritia Salust. Insatiable couetousnesse. Cædes. Stat. Mero profÛdo caluere. Sta. With much drinking they waxed hotte. Cupido. Sal. Insatiable great desyre. Nox profunda. Virg. Midnight: late in the night.

I. Lit.: mare profundum et immensum, Cic. Planc. 6, 15; Curt. 9, 4, 18: per inane profundum, Lucr. 1, 1108: pontus, Verg. A. 5, 614: Acheron, Lucr. 3, 978: Danubius, Hor. C. 4, 15, 21: fornax, Ov. M. 2, 229: valles, Stat. Th. 10, 95: terrae foramen, Just. 24, 6, 9: atque hiavit humus multa, vasta, et profunda, Sall. H. 4, 37 Dietsch: vulnera, Eum. Pan. Constant. 14.—Sup.: profundissimus libidinum gurges, Cic. Sest. 43, 93.—

2. Subst.: prŏfundum, i, n., depth.

a. In gen.: esse in profundo (aquae), Cic. Fin. 3, 14, 48 4, 23, 64: maris, Suet. Tib. 40; Ov. Hal. 84: immensa ac profunda camporum, Just. 41, 1, 11.—

b. In partic.

(a). The depths of the sea, the deep, the sea (class.): ex profundo molem ad caelum erigit, Att. ap. Cic. N. D. 2, 35, 89: jecissem ipse me potius in profundum, ut ceteros conservarem, quam, etc., Cic. Sest. 20, 45: profundo Vela dabit, Verg. A. 12, 263: vastum, Val. Fl. 8, 314; Sil. 4, 246: summum, Ov. M. 2, 267: indomitum, id. Tr. 1, 11, 39: pater ipse profundi, i.e. Neptune, Val. Fl. 2, 606: genitor profundi, Ov. M. 11, 202: Pamphylium, Col. 8, 16, 9: profundi imperium, Juv. 13, 49; Hor. C. 4, 4, 65; Ov. H. 18, 89; id. M. 5, 439; 11, 197.—

(b). In comic. lang., an abyss, meaning the stomach, in a lusus verbb. with fundus, Plaut. Capt. 1, 2, 79.—

B. Transf.

1. Thick, dense (poet. and in post - class. prose): Erebi nox, Verg. A. 4, 26: silvae, Lucr. 5, 41; Curt. 7, 7, 4: ursi villis profundioribus, Sol. 26.—

2. Like altus, high (poet.): caelum profundum, Verg. G. 4, 222: caelum, id. E. 4, 51; id. A. 1, 58; Val. Fl. 7, 478: altitudo, Liv. 38, 23; Tac. A. 2, 61.—

b. Subst.: prŏfundum, i, n., height: altum caeli, Manil. 5, 719.—

3. In a great quantity, copious, unlimited, without stint (poet.): merum, Stat. Th. 5, 262.—

4. Of the underworld, infernal (poet.): Manes, Verg. G. 1, 243: Chaos, Val. Fl. 7, 401: Juppiter, i. e. Pluto, Stat. Th. 1, 615: Juno, = Proserpina, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 1, 2.—

II. Trop.

A. Deep, bottomless, profound, boundless, immoderate (class.): profundae libidines, Cic. Pis. 21, 48: avaritia, Sall. J. 81, 1: cupido imperii et divitiarum, id. H. 4, 61, 5: vitia animi, Plin. 30, 2, 5, 14: cupiditas confundendi omnia, Vell. 2, 125, 2: securitas, Gell. 1, 15, 2: otium, Nazar. Pan. Constant. 35: profundissimā pace florere (=summā), Mamert. Pan. Maxim. 14: caedes, Stat. Th. 10, 831: tempestas, id. Achill. 1, 45: gula, Suet. Vit. 13: venter, Curt. 10, 2, 26: immensusque ruit profundo Pindarus ore, i.e. with inexhaustible copiousness of expression, Hor. C. 4, 2, 7: scientia, Macr. S. 3, 2, 7: cum me somnus profundus in imum barathrum demergit, App. M. 2, p. 125 fin.: in profundam ruinam cupidinis se praecipitare, id. ib. 8, p. 202, 1.—

B. Deep, obscure, unknown (post-Aug.): in profundo esse, to be unknown, Dig. 32, 15.—

C. Subst.: prŏfun-dum, i, n., a depth, abyss (class.): in profundo veritatem penitus abstrudere, Cic. Ac. 2, 10, 32: Democritus (dixit) in profundo veritatem esse demersam, id. ib. 1, 12, 44: in profundum ultimarum miseriarum abjectus, Val. Max. 2, 10, 6: immergere aliquem miserabiliter profundo cladium, id. 2, 6, 9, ext. 7: in profundum injuriarum et turpitudinis decidere, id. 2, 9, 1, ext. 2; cf.: de profundis clamavi ad te, Vulg. Psa. 129, 1.—Hence, adv.: prŏfun-dē, deeply (post-Aug.): in bibendo profundius nares mergere, Plin. 8, 42, 66, 165; Vulg. Osee, 9, 9.