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|lshtext=<b>plērusque</b>: răque, rumque, adj. a strengthened form from [[plerus]],<br /><b>I</b> [[very]] [[many]], a [[very]] [[great]] [[part]], the [[most]], [[most]] ([[rare]] in <[[number]] opt="n">[[sing]].</[[number]]>, and [[only]] in Sall. and [[post]]-[[class]]. writers; [[but]] in plur. freq. in all periods and styles).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Plur.: habent hunc morem [[plerique]] argentarii, Plaut. Curc. 3, 7: pleraeque hae (meretrices) sub vestimentis [[secum]] habebant [[retia]], id. Ep. 2, 2, 32; Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 38: multi [[nihil]] [[prodesse]] philosophiam, [[plerique]] [[etiam]] obesse arbitrantur, Cic. Inv. 1, 36, 65: ut [[plerique]] meministis, id. Sest. 3, 6: [[plerique]] [[Belgae]], Caes. B. G. 2, 4: pleraeque boves, Varr. R. R. 2, 5: pleraque tecta ... [[alia]], etc., Liv. 27, 3.—With ex and abl.: [[plerique]] e Graecis, Plin. 5, 1, 1, § 8: plerisque ex factione ejus corruptis, Sall. J. 29, 2.—With omnes, [[almost]] all: [[plerique]] omnes subiguntur sub suum judicium, Naev. ap. [[Don]]. ad Ter. And. 1, 1, 28 (Naev. Klussmann, p. 80): [[plerique]] omnes adulescentuli, id. ib. 1, 1, 28; cf.: dixi pleraque omnia, id. Heaut. 4, 7, 2.—Less [[emphatically]], a [[considerable]] [[part]], [[very]] [[many]]: rapti e [[publico]] [[plerique]], [[plures]] in tabernis intercepti, Tac. H. 1, 86; so, [[like]] [[plures]]: non [[dubito]] [[fore]] plerosque, qui hoc [[genus]] scripturae leve judicent, Nep. praef. 1: pleraque testimonia, id. Tim. 4, 2: deum ipsum multi [[Aesculapium]], [[quidam]] Osirim, [[plerique]] Iovem, plurimi Ditem patrem conjectant, Tac. H 4, 84 fin.—With gen.: [[plerique]] nostrūm oratorum, Cic. Or. 42, 143: Poenorum, id. Verr. 2, 3, 6, § 12: vestrum, id. Clu. 42, 117: quorum [[plerique]], id. Lael. 20, 71; Sall. J. 74, 1: urbium pleraeque, Liv. 5, 6, 9: eorum [[plerique]], Cic. Top. 21, 80; id. Fam. 5, 21, 1: legentium, Liv. praef. 4: Graecorum, Plin. Ep. 5, 20, 4: militum, Tac. H. 1, 5.— Gen. plur. ([[rare]] and [[post]]-[[class]].): [[scientia]] plerarumque litterarum, Vitr. 1, 1, 11.— Subst.: plērăque, n. plur., all, [[every]] [[thing]]: nec ratione animi [[quicquam]], sed pleraque viribus corporis administrabant, Cic. Inv. 1, 2.—Also, the [[most]], the greatest [[part]].: pleraque ejus insulae, Curt. 4, 8, 15. —plērăque, adverb., [[mostly]], for the [[most]] [[part]] ([[post]]-[[class]].): is erit pleraque [[impeccabilis]], Gell. 17, 19, 6.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sing.: juventus pleraque Catilinae favebat, the greatest or largest [[part]], Sall. C. 17, 6: pleraque [[nobilitas]], id. ib. 23, 6: quā tempestate Carthaginienses pleraeque Africae imperitabant, id. J. 79, 2: exercitum [[plerumque]] opperiri jubet, id. ib. 54, 9: [[Graecia]], Gell. 17, 21: comae pleramque contegebant faciem, App. M. 9, p. 231, 5.—Neutr.: plērum-que, subst., [[with]] gen., the greatest [[part]]: ubi [[plerumque]] noctis processit, Sall. J. 21, 2: Europae, Liv. 45, 9; Just. 41, 1, 12; Mel. 1, 4, 2.—More freq.: plērumquē, adv., for the [[most]] [[part]], [[mostly]], [[commonly]], [[very]] [[often]], [[very]] [[frequently]]: haec ipsa fortuita sunt: [[plerumque]] [[enim]] non [[semper]] eveniunt, Cic. Div. 2, 5, 14: [[plerumque]] casu, [[saepe]] naturā, id. Or. 51, 170; Plaut. Rud. 4, 7, 11: ridiculum acri Fortius et [[melius]] magnas [[plerumque]] secat res, Hor. S. 1, 10, 15: hi [[plerumque]] [[gradus]], [[usually]], Juv. 11, 46.—Post-Aug., in a [[less]] [[emphatic]] [[sense]], [[often]], [[frequently]]: [[plerumque]] permoveor, num ad ipsum referri verius [[sit]], Tac. A. 4, 57; id. H. 5, 1; id. G. 13; 45; id. Or. 15; Dig. 2, 14, 25 and 26.