I.an assembling in great numbers, a numerous attendance, concourse; and more freq. concr., a numerous assembly, multitude, crowd, throng (class.; a favorite expression of Cicero).
(α).
With gen.: “testis est hujusce Q. Mucii janua et vestibulum, quod maxima cottidie frequentia civium ac summorum hominum splendore celebratur,” Cic. de Or. 1, 45 fin.: “quotidiana amicorum assiduitas et frequentia,” Q. Cic. Petit. Cons. 1, 3: “summa hominum,” Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 77, § 189; so, “hominum,” id. Lael. 23, 87: “negotiatorum,” Sall. J. 47, 2: “auditorum,” Quint. 10, 7, 16: “scholarum,” id. 1, 2, 1: “vulgi,” Nep. Att. 22: “epistolarum,” Cic. Att. 4, 16, 1: “magna sepulcrorum,” id. Tusc. 5, 23, 65: “geniculorum,” Plin. 27, 12, 91, § 113: “caeli,” i. e. the density of the air, Vitr. 9, 9: “Thucydides ita creber est rerum frequentiā, ut verborum prope numerum sententiarum numero consequatur,” Cic. de Or. 2, 13, 56: “communium,” id. Part. Or. 12, 41.—
(β).
Absol.: “domum reduci e campo cum maxima frequentia ac multitudine,” Cic. Verr. 1, 7, 18: “frequentia et plausus,” id. Att. 4, 1, 5: “non usitata frequentia stipati sumus,” id. Mil. 1, 1: “efferri magna frequentia,” id. Fl. 17, 41: “solidam et robustam et assiduam frequentiam praebere,” id. Planc. 8 fin.: “frequentiam atque officium suum alicui praestare,” Hirt. B. G. 8, 50, 3: “qua ex frequentia (preceded by magna multitudo),” Caes. B. C. 3, 19, 5.
