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multĭ-plex , ĭcis, adj. multus-* plica (multīplex, Lucr. 2, 163; 4, 208; n. plur. multiplica, Gell. 19, 7, 16),
I.that has many folds (class.).
II. Transf.
A. That has many windings or concealed places: “vitis serpens multiplici lapsu et erratico,Cic. Sen. 15, 52: “domus,the labyrinth, Ov. M. 8, 158.—
B. In implied comparisons, manifold, many times as great, far more: “id efficiebat multiplex gaudium rei,Liv. 7, 8, 1: “multiplex caedes utrimque facta traditur ab aliis,” i. e. far greater than I state it, id. 22, 7, 3: “praeda,id. 2, 64, 4.—
C. That has many parts, manifold, many, numerous, various: “lorica,Verg. A. 5, 264: “cortex,Plin. 16, 31, 55, § 126: “fetus,Cic. N. D. 2, 51: “folia,Plin. 18, 7, 10, § 58.—Extensive, large, wide, spacious: “spatium loci,Lucr. 2, 163: “domus,Sen. Hippol. 523: “aerumna,Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 3: “potestates verborum,Auct. Her. 4, 54, 67: “genus orationis,Cic. Brut. 31, 119: “multiplices variique sermones,id. Or. 3: large multiplici constructae sunt dape mensae, of many courses or dishes, Cat. 64, 304: “multiplex et tortuosum ingenium,” i. e. inconstant, changeable. fickle, Cic. Lael. 18, 65: “animus,id. ib. 25, 92: “natura,id. Cael. 6, 14: “vir multiplex in virtutibus,Vell. 2, 105, 2: “ingenium,dexterous, sly, Cic. Att. 6, 2, 2.—Poet.: “multiplex avis,rich in ancestors, Sil. 5, 543.—Hence, adv.: multĭplĭcĭter , in manifold or various ways (mostly post-Aug.): “multipliciter fatigari,Sall. Or. 2 ad Caes.: “locum intueri,Quint. 7, 4, 22: “varie et multipliciter,id. 1, 6, 32: “tam saepe ac tam multipliciter,Gell. 14, 1, 21.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (22):
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 6.2.2
    • Cicero, For Marcus Caelius, 6.14
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 5.264
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8.158
    • Plautus, Epidicus, 4.1
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 2.163
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.208
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 18.58
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 7, 8
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 22, 7
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 2, 64.4
    • Seneca, Phaedra, 523
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 2.51
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 2.54
    • Cicero, De Senectute, 15
    • Cicero, De Amicitia, 18
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 1, 6.32
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 7, 4.22
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 14.1.21
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 19.7.16
    • Cicero, Brutus, 31.119
    • Cicero, Orator, 3
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