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|lshtext=<b>immensus</b>: (inm-), a, um, adj. inmensus,<br /><b>I</b> [[immeasurable]], [[boundless]], [[endless]], [[vast]], [[immense]] (freq. and [[class]].; syn.: [[infinitus]], [[ingens]], [[interminatus]]).<br /><b>I</b> Adj.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Lit.: si immensam et interminatam in omnes partes magnitudinem regionum videretis, Cic. N. D. 1, 20, 54: aëra deum statuit eumque gigni esseque immensum et infinitum, id. ib. 1, 10, 26: ex ingenti quodam oratorem immensoque campo in exiguum [[sane]] gyrum compellitis, id. de Or. 3, 19, 70: in mari immenso vehi, id. Tusc. 1, 30, 73: [[domus]], Ov. F. 6, 640: [[mons]], Plin. 4, 13, 27, § 96: via, Ov. P. 3, 3, 78: fines ingenii, Cic. de Or. 1, 49, 214: [[series]] laborum, Ov. H. 9, 5: jacuitque per [[antrum]] Immensus, Verg. A. 3, 632; cf.: [[omnis]] eorum juventus infinita [[numero]], immensa corporibus, Vell. 2, 106, 1: argenti [[pondus]] et auri, Cic. Rep. 1, 17; Hor. S. 1, 1, 41: pretiis [[emere]], Suet. Calig. 39: observata sunt haec tempore immenso, Cic. Div. 1, 7, 12: nox, Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 25.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Trop., [[vast]], [[measureless]], [[boundless]]: morae, Ov. H. 1, 82: [[fletus]], id. M. 10, 136: immensa [[vorago]] aut [[gurges]] vitiorum, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 9, § 23: immensae, infinitae, immoderatae cupiditates, Auct. Her. 2, 22, 34: [[sitis]] cruoris, Ov. M. 13, 768: [[difficultas]], Plin. 28, 1, 2, § 4: [[differentia]], id. 36, 5, 4, § 20: fervet immensusque ruit [[profundo]] [[Pindarus]] [[ore]], fathomless (the [[fig]]. [[being]] taken from a [[river]]), Hor. C. 4, 2, 7: immensum est, erratas dicere terras, [[there]] is no [[end]] of recounting, Ov. F. 4, 573; cf.: [[quod]] persequi immensum est, Plin. 8, 28, 42, § 102.—Sup. ([[very]] [[rare]]): immensissimae voluptates, Spart. Hadr. 19.—<br /><b>II</b> Absol.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Subst.: immensum, i, n., a [[boundless]] [[extent]], [[immense]] [[size]], boundlessness, [[immensity]] ([[rare]]; not in Cic.): [[extra]] Processit [[longe]] flammantia [[moenia]] mundi, Atque omne immensum peragravit mente animoque, Lucr. 1, 74; cf. id. 1, 957: loci, Liv. 5, 37, 5: per immensum ventis discordibus [[actus]], Ov. M. 4, 620: proruta per immensum aedificia, [[over]] a [[vast]] [[extent]], Tac. A. 15, 40: aliquid mercari immenso, at an [[enormous]] [[price]], Plin. 9, 40, 64, § 138: [[mons]] [[saxeus]] in immensum [[editus]], Sall. J. 92, 5: ardet in immensum geminatis ignibus Aetne, Ov. M. 2, 220: ad immensum aliquid augere, Liv. 29, 25, 3: aliquid immenso [[plus]] laudare, [[immoderately]], Plin. 20, 9, 36, § 92. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Adv.: immensum, [[without]] [[end]], [[exceedingly]], [[immensely]] (not freq. [[till]] [[after]] the Aug. per.): creverat immensum, Ov. F. 5, 537: immensum attolli, Tac. A. 4, 40: vigere, id. ib. 3, 30: [[luxus]] immensum proruperat, id. ib. 3, 52: immensum [[quantum]] [[hinc]] Oceano, [[illinc]] Hiberico mari conprimentibus, [[exceedingly]], Plin. 4, 20, 34, § 110; 16, 36, 66, § 172.

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