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|lshtext=<b>cōpĭōsus</b>: a, um, adj. 1. [[copia]].<br /><b>I</b> Furnished [[abundantly]] [[with]] a [[thing]], [[well]] supplied, having [[abundance]], [[rich]], [[copious]], [[plentiful]], abounding (in [[wealth]], [[means]] of [[living]], etc.) ([[very]] freq. and [[class]]., esp. in [[prose]]).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen.; constr. [[with]] abl., ab, or absol.; [[rarely]] [[with]] gen.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With [[simple]] abl. or ab and abl.: tu agris, tu aedificiis, tu argento, tu familiā, tu rebus omnibus [[ornatus]] et [[copiosus]] sis, Cic. Cat. 2, 8, 18: [[Arion]] grandi pecuniā et re bonā multā coplosus, Gell. 16, 19, 7: [[oppidum]] re cibariā, id. 7, 1, 8: Bruttedius artibus honestis, Tac. A. 3, 66: [[locus]] a frumento, Cic. Att. 5, 18, 2.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Absol. (so [[most]] freq.): copiosa [[plane]] et [[locuples]] ([[mulier]]), Cic. Div. in Caecil. 17, 55: [[urbs]], id. Arch. 3, 4: via copiosa omniumque rerum [[abundans]], Nep. Eum. 8, 5; cf. stativa, Liv. 9, 44, 9: [[patrimonium]], Cic. Rosc. Am. 2, 6; id. Rab. Post. 14, 38 al.: [[ingenium]] [[facile]] et copiosum, [[fertile]] in expedients, [[rich]], Quint. 10, 1, 128: [[ratio]] loquendi, id. 2, 1, 4.—Comp.: [[provincia]], Auct. B. Alex. 43. —Sup.: copiosissimum [[oppidum]], Caes. B. G. 1, 23: copiosissimus ac sollertissimus [[hostis]], * Suet. Caes. 35: cucumeres, Plin. 19, 5, 23, § 65.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(g)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With gen.: [[ager]] silvestrium caprarum, Sol. 11, 11; cf. 1. [[copis]]. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(d)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; With ad: [[quamquam]] erat [[provincia]] [[minime]] copiosa ad alendos [[exercitus]], Auct. B. Alex. 42.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic., of an [[orator]], or of [[discourse]], [[rich]] in [[language]], [[copious]] in [[expression]], [[eloquent]]: [[homo]] [[copiosus]] ad dicendum, Cic. Caecin. 23, 64: [[lingua]] (opp. [[inops]]), id. Fin. 3, 15, 51: densior [[ille]], hic copiosior in eloquendo, Quint. 1, 1, 106: oratores, id. 12, 5, 5: vir, Liv. 45, 25, 3: [[multa]] et [[varia]] et copiosa [[oratio]], Cic. de Or. 2, 53, 214: [[loquacitas]], Quint. 8, 2, 17; opp. jejunum, id. 8, 3, 49.—<br /><b>II</b> Existing in [[rich]] [[abundance]], [[copious]] ([[very]] [[rare]]): [[liquor]] putei, Phaedr. 4, 9, 7: [[varietas]] rerum abundat, id. 5, 6, 2: [[supellex]] verborum, Quint. 8, prooem. § 28.—Hence, cōpĭōsē, adv. ([[very]] freq.), in [[great]] [[abundance]], [[copiously]], [[abundantly]], [[plentifully]], [[copiously]] provided.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In gen.: sic [[copiose]] in provinciam [[profectus]] erat, ut, etc., Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 36, § 91: [[large]] et [[copiose]] comparare pastum, id. N. D. 2, 47, 121: accepti [[tribus]] tricliniis, id. Att. 13, 52, 2: senatorum [[urna]] [[copiose]] absolvit, by a [[large]] [[majority]], id. Q. Fr. 2, 4, 6: [[ornatus]], id. Verr. 2, 4, 27, § 62.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Esp., of [[discourse]], [[copiously]], [[fully]], at [[length]]: [[copiose]] ab eo agri [[cultura]] laudatur, Cic. Sen. 17, 59: [[copiose]] et abundanter loqui, id. de Or. 2, 35, 151: defendere causas reorum, id. Verr. 2, 2, 78, § 191: dicere, id. N. D. 1, 21, 58; Quint. 1, 4, 5.—Comp.: dicere, Cic. Or. 4, 14: haec omnia exsequi, Quint. 9, 3, 89.—Sup.: dicere, Cic. Clu. 10, 29; id. de Or. 1, 62, 263; id. Off. 1, 1, 4: laudare, id. de Or. 2, 10, 39: defensum esse, id. Quint. 28, 87: [[locus]] tractatur, Quint. 2, 4, 24.