ingens
Λάλει τὰ μέτρια, μὴ λάλει δ', ἃ μή σε δεῖ → Modestus sermo, et qualis deceat, sit tuus → Sprich maßvoll, spricht nicht aus, was unanständig ist
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
ingens: tis, adj. 2. in-genus, gens, that goes beyond its kind or species, qs. uncouth, monstrous,
I of immoderate size, vast, huge, prodigious, enormous; great, remarkable: magnas vero agere gratias Thais mihi? Gn. Ingentes, Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 1 (cf.: satis erat respondere magnas: ingentes inquit, semper auget assentator, Cic. Lael. 26, 98): ingens immanisque praeda, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 46, § 110: ingens immensusque campus, id. de Or. 3, 19, 70: pecunia, an exorbitant sum, id. Div. in Caecil. 10 init.; cf. id. Prov. Cons. 3, 5: aquae, Liv. 35, 9, 2: aequor, Hor. C. 1, 7, 32: pinus, id. ib. 2, 3, 9: exitus Istri, Val. Fl. 8, 185: clamor, Liv. 2, 23, 7: gloria, id. 2, 22, 6: virtus atque animus, Hor. S. 2, 7, 103: ingentia facta, id. Ep. 2, 1, 6: vir, Sen. Herc. Fur. 441: ingens aliquā re, great, remarkable, distinguished in any respect: vir famā ingens, ingentior armis, Verg. A. 11, 124: gloriā, Tac. A. 11, 10: viribus opibusque, id. H. 1, 61: eloquio, Stat. S. 1, 4, 71.—
(b) With gen.: ingens virium atque animi, Sall. H. 3, 13 Dietsch: femina ingens animi, Tac. A. 1, 69: vir ingens rerum, id. H. 4, 66.—
(g) With inf.: ingens ferre mala, Sil. 10, 216.—Comp. (poet.), Verg. A. 11, 124.—
II Trop., great, strong, powerful: senatus, Sil. 11, 67: Paulus, id. 17, 298: ingentis spiritus vir, Liv. 21, 1, 5: cui genus a proavis ingens, Verg. A. 12, 225.
