I.height, loftiness (post-Aug.; cf. altitudo).
I. Lit.: “corporis,” Quint. 12, 5, 5: “cellarum,” Col. 8, 3, 3: “cucurbitarum,” Plin. 19, 5, 24, § 69.—In plur.: “lunae,” Plin. 2, 16, 13, § 68.—
II. Trop.
A. In gen.: “sublimitas incomparabilis invicti animi,” Plin. 7, 25, 26, § 94: “in picturā,” id. 35, 10, 36, § 67.—
B. In partic., of language, loftiness, elevation, sublimity (while elevatio means disparagement): “heroici carminis,” Quint. 1, 8, 5; cf.: “ab his (poëtis) in verbis sublimitas petitur,” id. 10, 1, 27: “sublimitas et magnificentia et nitor,” id. 8, 3, 3: “narrandi (with splendor),” Plin. Ep. 1, 16, 4: “Platonica illa sublimitas,” id. ib. 1, 10, 5.
