I.roomy, of great extent, ample, spacious; poet., large, long, broad, etc. (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose; not in Cic.; syn.: latus, amplus, laxus).
I. Lit.: “stabulum,” Col. 6, 2, 2: “insula,” Plin. 4, 12, 26, § 82: “loca,” Quint. 11, 2, 18: “aequor,” Plin. 4, 1, 1, § 4: “amnis,” id. 4, 20, 34, § 112: “colles,” Luc. 6, 106: “volumina fumi,” id. 3, 505: “taurus (opp. parva vipera),” Ov. R. Am. 421: “corpus,” id. M. 3, 56: “ossa pectoris (with ingentes umeri),” Val. Fl. 4, 244: “mergus in guttura, Ov M. 11, 754: limes,” id. ib. 15, 849: “ulmus,” id. ib. 14, 661: “frons cornibus,” id. ib. 3, 20 (Merkel, speciosa): voces, i. e. of many syllables (corresp. to amplitudo dactyli), Quint. 9, 4, 136 et saep.— Comp.: “spatiosiora quam decem pedum,” Col. 5, 5, 3 (opp. contractiora): “Andromache spatiosior aequo,” Ov. A. A. 2, 645; id. Am. 1, 14, 3: “quo non spatiosior alter innumeras cepisse rates,” Sil. 8, 481 al.—Sup.: “spatiosissima sedes hominum deorumque,” Plin. Pan. 63 fin.—
II. Trop.
A. Of time, long, long-continuing, prolonged: “nox,” Ov. H. 1, 9: “tempus,” id. Am. 1, 8, 81: “aevum,” id. M. 8, 529: “senectus,” id. ib. 12, 186: “vetustas,” id. ib. 15, 623: “bellum,” id. ib. 13, 206.—
B. Of other things, great, comprehensive: “magna et spatiosa res est sapientia: vacuo illi loco opus est,” Sen. Ep. 88, 33.—Adv.: spătĭōsē .
1. Widely, greatly, extensively, Plin. 19, 5, 29, § 92; 31, 11, 47, § 129.—Comp., Plin. Ep. 3, 18, 1; Ov. Am. 3, 6, 85.—
2. Long; comp., at a later time, Prop. 3, 20, 11 (4, 20, 3).