I. Monstrous size, hugeness, vastness, excess (very rare, but class.): “serpens inusitatae immanitatis,” Gell. 6, 3, 1: “vitiorum,” Cic. Cael. 6, 14: “frigoris,” Just. 2, 1.—
II. Monstrousness, enormity, heinousness, savageness, fierceness, cruelty, barbarism (so most freq.): “ista in figura hominis feritas et immanitas beluae,” Cic. Off. 3, 6, 32: “feritas quaedam atque agrestis immanitas,” id. Div. 1, 29, 60; cf.: “multas esse gentes sic immanitate efferatas ut, etc.,” id. N. D. 1, 23, 62: “omni diritate atque immanitate taeterrimus,” id. Vatin. 3, 9: “inter feras satius est aetatem degere, quam in tanta immanitate versari,” in such barbarism, id. Rosc. Am. 52, 150: “asperitas et immanitas naturae,” id. Lael. 23, 87: “morum immanitate vastissimas vincit beluas,” id. Rep. 2, 26: “in animo, stupor in corpore,” id. Tusc. 3, 6, 12; cf.: “temperantiam immanitas in voluptatibus aspernandis imitatur,” id. Part. 23, 81: “M. Antonii tanta est non insolentia (nam id quidem vulgare vitium est), sed immanitas, non modo ut, etc.,” id. Fam. 10, 1, 1: “tanti facinoris immanitas,” id. Cat. 1, 6, 14: “parricidii,” Quint. 9, 2, 53: “priorum temporum,” Plin. Pan. 47, 1: “ista verborum,” Cic. Fin. 4, 9 fin. (v. Madv. ad h. l.).
