I.very large, huge, colossal (ante-class. and post-Aug.).
I. Lit.: “praegrandi gradu, Pac. ap. Fest. s. v. torvitas, p. 355 Müll. (Trag. Rel. p. 67 Rib.): arbores,” Plin. 13, 25, 49, § 138: “aures,” id. 4, 13, 27, § 95; cf. “oculi,” id. 8, 33, 51, § 121: “boves,” id. 8, 45, 70, § 176: “domus,” id. 3, 16, 20, § 119: “fel,” id. 11, 37, 74, § 191: locusta, Suet. Tib. 60: “lapides,” Vulg. Ezech. 13, 11.—
II. Trop., very great, powerful: “praegrandis senex,” i. e. the great Aristophanes, Pers. 1, 124.