I.length.
I. Lit.: “in hac immensitate latitudinum, longitudinum, altitudinum,” Cic. N. D. 1, 20, 54: “itineris,” id. Phil. 9, 1, 2: “pontis,” Caes. B. G. 6, 29: “longitudines et brevitates in sonis,” Cic. Or. 51, 173: “diffindere aliquid in longitudinem,” lengthwise, id. Univ. 7: “in longitudinem murum praeduxerant,” Caes. B. G. 7, 46: “longitudinis pedes,” Quint. 1, 10, 42; 11, 3, 118; Plin. 16, 34, 62, § 150: “Hispania ulterior in duas per longitudinem provincias dividitur,” id. 3, 1, 2, § 6.—
II. Transf., of time, length, long duration (rare; cf.: “longinquitas, diuturnitas): noctis,” Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 10, § 26: “orationis,” id. Part. 17, 59; cf. “prooemii,” Quint. 4, 1, 62: “consulere in longitudinem,” to look far ahead, take thought for the future, Ter. Heaut. 5, 2, 10.
