I.immeasurable, boundless, endless, vast, immense (freq. and class.; syn.: infinitus, ingens, interminatus).
I. Adj.
A. Lit.: “si immensam et interminatam in omnes partes magnitudinem regionum videretis,” Cic. N. D. 1, 20, 54: “aëra deum statuit eumque gigni esseque immensum et infinitum,” id. ib. 1, 10, 26: “ex ingenti quodam oratorem immensoque campo in exiguum sane gyrum compellitis,” id. de Or. 3, 19, 70: “in mari immenso vehi,” id. Tusc. 1, 30, 73: “domus,” Ov. F. 6, 640: “mons,” Plin. 4, 13, 27, § 96: “via,” Ov. P. 3, 3, 78: “fines ingenii,” Cic. de Or. 1, 49, 214: “series laborum,” Ov. H. 9, 5: “jacuitque per antrum Immensus,” Verg. A. 3, 632; cf.: “omnis eorum juventus infinita numero, immensa corporibus,” Vell. 2, 106, 1: “argenti pondus et auri,” Cic. Rep. 1, 17; Hor. S. 1, 1, 41: pretiis emere, Suet. Calig. 39: “observata sunt haec tempore immenso,” Cic. Div. 1, 7, 12: “nox,” Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 25.—
B. Trop., vast, measureless, boundless: “morae,” Ov. H. 1, 82: “fletus,” id. M. 10, 136: “immensa vorago aut gurges vitiorum,” Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 9, § 23: “immensae, infinitae, immoderatae cupiditates,” Auct. Her. 2, 22, 34: “sitis cruoris,” Ov. M. 13, 768: “difficultas,” Plin. 28, 1, 2, § 4: “differentia,” id. 36, 5, 4, § 20: fervet immensusque ruit profundo Pindarus ore, fathomless (the fig. being taken from a river), Hor. C. 4, 2, 7: “immensum est, erratas dicere terras,” there is no end of recounting, Ov. F. 4, 573; cf.: “quod persequi immensum est,” Plin. 8, 28, 42, § 102.—Sup. (very rare): “immensissimae voluptates,” Spart. Hadr. 19.—
II. Absol.
A. Subst.: immensum , i, n., a boundless extent, immense size, boundlessness, immensity (rare; “not in Cic.): extra Processit longe flammantia moenia mundi, Atque omne immensum peragravit mente animoque,” Lucr. 1, 74; cf. id. 1, 957: “loci,” Liv. 5, 37, 5: “per immensum ventis discordibus actus,” Ov. M. 4, 620: “proruta per immensum aedificia,” over a vast extent, Tac. A. 15, 40: “aliquid mercari immenso,” at an enormous price, Plin. 9, 40, 64, § 138: “mons saxeus in immensum editus,” Sall. J. 92, 5: “ardet in immensum geminatis ignibus Aetne,” Ov. M. 2, 220: “ad immensum aliquid augere,” Liv. 29, 25, 3: “aliquid immenso plus laudare,” immoderately, Plin. 20, 9, 36, § 92. —
B. Adv.: immensum , without end, exceedingly, immensely (not freq. till after the Aug. per.): “creverat immensum,” Ov. F. 5, 537: “immensum attolli,” Tac. A. 4, 40: “vigere,” id. ib. 3, 30: “luxus immensum proruperat,” id. ib. 3, 52: “immensum quantum hinc Oceano, illinc Hiberico mari conprimentibus,” exceedingly, Plin. 4, 20, 34, § 110; 16, 36, 66, § 172.
