Great beyond measnre: huge: ometime desolate. Vastissimum incendium. Plin. iun. Vastus natura & humano cultu. Salust. Desolate: not inhabited with men. Aequor vastum. Virg. The wide sea. Ager vastus ac desertus. Cic. In vastiorem altitudinem ac velut profundum inuehi. Liui. Animus vastus. Salust. A minde insatiable and outragious. ly couetous. Antrum vastum. Virg. Aper vastus. Claud. Arma vasta. Virgil. Artus vasti. Virg. Bellua vasta & immanis. Cic. Cæde vasta fessus. Virg. Wearie with great slaughter. Campi vasti. Virg. Certamine vasto tendunt. Virg. Crater vastus. Ouid. Feræ vastæ. Ouid. Figura vastior elephanto. Cic. Floctus vasti. Virg. Hiatu vasto immanis spelunca. Virg. Homo vastus atque fœdus. Cicero. A foule and wishapen greatlubber. Ictus vasti. Virg. Impetus vastus. Hor. Locus vastus & Aedificatus, contraria. Cice. Wilde and desolate. Vasta & agrestis India. Cic. Moles vasta. Virg. Ira vasta. Ouid. Molimen vastum. Oui. Iter vastum. Ouid. Mundus vastus. Ouidi. Latratus vastus. Colu. An huge great barking. Murmure vasto it mare. Virg. Litera vastior. Cice. Onus vastum. Ouid. Oratio vasta. Author ad Heren. Orbis vastus. Oui. Pondus vastum. Virg. Rupes vastæ. Virg. Solitudo vasta. Cice. Silentium vastum. Tac. Great silence. Sinus vastus. Virg. Tellus vasta. Val. Flac. Vires vastæ. Virg. Vorago vasta. Virg. Vulnera vasta. Lucre. Vastus atque agrestis motu corporis, per contemptum. Cic. Ill fauoured, and rude in gesture of bodie.

I. Lit. (so rare but class.; syn.: vacuus, desertus): genus agrorum propter pestilentiam vastum atque desertum, Cic. Agr. 2, 26, 69: lex erat lata vasto ac relicto foro, id. Sest. 24, 53: agrum vastum ac desertum habere, Liv. 28, 11, 10: vasta ac deserta urbs, id. 24, 3, 11; 28, 7, 12: vasta incendiis ruinisque urbs, id. 5, 53, 1: mons vastus ab naturā et humano cultu, uncultivated, Sall. J. 48, 3: urbs a defensoribus vasta, without, Liv. 23, 30, 7 (al. ex conj. vacua).—

B. Trop. (the fig. taken from tracts of country lying waste or untilled), uncultivated, unpolished, rude, rough, harsh: vultu motuque corporis vasti atque agrestes, Cic. de Or. 1, 25, 115: vastus homo atque foedus, id. ib. 1, 25, 117: vasti quidam et insubidi, Gell. 19, 9, 9: fugiemus crebras vocalium concursiones, quae vastam atque hiantem orationem reddunt, ut hoc est: baccae aeneae amoenissimae impendebant, Auct. Her. 4, 12, 18: omnia vasta ac temeraria esse, Liv. 24, 48, 7: littera vastior, too harsh-sounding, Cic. Or. 45, 153.—

II. Transf.

A. Desolate, deserted: abs te viduae et vastae virgines sunt, made lonely, Enn. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 1, 52 (Trag. v. 279 Vahl.): dies per silentium vastus, Tac. A. 3, 4.—

B. Wasted by destruction, laid waste, ravaged, devastated, destroyed (rare; cf. vastatus): fit vasta Troja, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 130: jam hanc urbem ferro vastam faciet Peleus, Att. ap. Fest. pp. 372 and 373: haec ego vasta dabo, Verg. A. 9, 323: nec solum modo vastum hosti relictum, sed castellis etiam vicisque illatus ignis, Liv. 10, 12, 8.—

C. With the predom. idea of extent, vast, immense, enormous, huge, monstrous (syn.: ingens, immanis).

1. Of size: jamque fere pulvis ad caelum vasta videtur, Enn. ap. Non. 217, 11 (Ann. v. 286 Vahl.): immani et vastae insidens beluae, Cic. Rep. 2, 40, 67: vasta et immanis belua, id. Div. 1, 24, 49; cf.: vastissimae beluae, id. Rep. 2, 26, 49: elephanto beluarum nulla prudentior; ad figuram quae vastior? id. N. D. 1, 35, 97: summa erat vasto atque aperto mari, difficultas navigandi, Caes. B. G. 3, 12; cf.: in vastissimo atque apertissimo Oceano, id. ib. 3, 9, 7: fossa vastissima, Cic. Rep. 2, 6, 11: solitudines, id. ib. 2, 6, 19: campi, Verg. A. 3, 13: Charybdis, Lucr. 1, 722: antiquus crater, quem vastum vastior ipse Sustulit Aegides, Ov. M. 12, 236: antrum, Verg. A. 1, 52: hiatus speluncae, id. ib. 6, 237: suspectus turris, id. ib. 9, 530: manus, Ov. F. 2, 322: arma, Verg. A. 10, 768: corpus, Col. 7, 12, 3.—

2. Transf., of degree, etc., immense, enormous, prodigious, vast, etc.: iter, i.e. on the vast ocean, Ov. M. 14, 438: certamen, Verg. A. 12, 553: impetus, Hor. C. 4, 14, 30: pugnae Cannensis clades vastissima, Gell. 5, 17, 5: tempestas, Col. 2, 20, 5; cf.: vapores vastissimi, id. 2, 20, 1: clamor, Verg. A. 10, 716; Ov. M. 12, 494: murmur, Verg. A. 1, 245: latratus, Col. 7, 12, 3: tonitru, Val. Fl. 1, 617: pondus, Verg. A. 5, 447; Ov. H. 9, 88.—

3. Trop.: vastus animus, i.e. insatiable, Sall. C. 5, 4.—Rarely with abstr. nouns: quam vasta potentia nostra est, Ov. M. 2, 520: varia vastaque scientia, Col. 1, pr. 28: nefas, Sen. Herc. Oet. 767.—Adv.: vastē.

1. (Acc. to vastus, I. B.) Rudely, harshly: loqui non aspere, non vaste, non rustice, etc., Cic. de Or. 3, 12, 45: ne vastius diducantur verba, id. ib. 3, 43, 172.—

2. (Acc. to II. B.) Widely, vastly, immensely, violently, enormously: vaste cedentia litora, Mel. 1, 1, 4: vastius insurgens decimae ruit impetus undae, Ov. M. 11, 530: vastius podagra correpti, Scrib. Comp. 107.