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|lshtext=<b>multĭtūdo</b>: ĭnis, f. [[multus]],<br /><b>I</b> a [[great]] [[number]], [[multitude]] ([[class]].; cf.: [[copia]], vis, [[magnitudo]]).<br /><b>I</b> In gen.: nationes, quae [[numero]] hominum ac multitudine ipsā poterant in provincias [[nostras]] redundare, Cic. Prov. Cons. 12, 31: navium, Nep. Hann. 10, 4: argenti facti, Varr. ap. Non. 465, 27: sacrificiorum, Cic. de Or. 3, 19, 71.—<br /><b>II</b> In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Of [[people]], a [[great]] [[number]], a [[crowd]], [[multitude]]: tanta [[multitudo]] lapides ac [[tela]] coniciebat, ut, etc., Caes. B. G. 2, 6; Nep. Milt. 3, 5; id. Arist. 1, 3: multitudine domum circumdare, Nep. Hann. 12, 4: multitudine civium factiones valuere, Sall. C. 51, 40: prima lux mediocrem multitudinem [[ante]] [[moenia]] ostendit, Liv. 7, 12, 3.—In plur., multitudes: [[partim]] exquirebant duces multitudinum, Sall. C. 50, 1.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Of the [[common]] [[people]], the [[crowd]], the [[multitude]] (cf. [[turba]]): ex errore imperitae multitudinis, Cic. Off. 1, 19, 65: sed multitudinem haec [[maxime]] allicit, id. Fin. 1, 7, 25: multitudinis judicium, id. Tusc. 2, 26, 63; id. Clu. 29, 59; id. Sest. 58, 124: credula, Just. 2, 8, 9.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In gram.: [[numerus]] multitudinis, or [[simply]] [[multitudo]], the plural [[number]], the plural: [[quod]] [[alia]] vocabula singularia sint [[solum]] ut [[cicer]], [[alia]] multitudinis [[solum]] ut scalae ... multitudinis vocabula sunt, etc., Varr. L. L. 9, § 63 Müll.: [[cur]] mel et [[vinum]], [[atque]] id [[genus]] [[cetera]] numerum multitudinis capiunt, [[lacte]] non capiat, Gell. 19, 8, 13.—In <[[number]] opt="n">plur.</[[number]]>, Varr. L. L. 9, § 65 Müll.