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spătĭōsus , a, um, adj. spatium,
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).
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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 13.206
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 15.623
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 12.186
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.56
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8.529
    • Lucan, Civil War, 3.505
    • Lucan, Civil War, 6.106
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 4.4
    • Pliny the Younger, Epistulae, 3.18.1
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 3.20
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 4.244
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 9, 4.136
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 11, 2.18
    • Seneca, Epistulae, 88.33
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 5.5.3
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 6.2.2
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