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ingens

ingens, not natural, immoderate, vast, huge, prodigious, enormous, great, remarkable

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Hannibale profecto Romae gaudium ingens ortum erat
once Hannibal had set off, great joy rose up in Rome

Frieze-Dennison Vergil

ingēns, entis: (adj.), great, freq.; huge, enormous, 2.400; monstrous, vast, 3.658; mighty, giant-, 1.99; immense, 5.423; great, massive, 1.640; ponderous, 6.222; vast, spacious, 6.81; lofty, towering, 4.89; stately, 1.446; exalted, great, 2.325; dread, 7.241; fearful, 5.523.
ingens, tis, adj. [2. in-genus, gens, that goes beyond its kind or species, qs. uncouth, monstrous],
  • of immoderate size, vast, huge, prodigious, enormous; great, remarkable: magnas vero agere gratias Thais mihi? Gn. Ingentes, Ter. Eun. 391 (cf.: satis erat respondere magnas: ingentes inquit, semper auget assentator, Cic. Lael. 26, 98): ingens immanisque praeda, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 46, § 110: ingens immensusque campus, id. de Or. 3, 19, 70: pecunia, an exorbitant sum, id. Div. in Caecil. 10 init.; cf. id. Prov. Cons. 3, 5: aquae, Liv. 35, 9, 2: aequor, Hor. C. 1, 7, 32: pinus, id. ib. 2, 3, 9: exitus Istri, Val. Fl. 8, 185: clamor, Liv. 2, 23, 7: gloria, id. 2, 22, 6: virtus atque animus, Hor. S. 2, 7, 103: ingentia facta, id. Ep. 2, 1, 6: vir, Sen. Herc. Fur. 441: ingens aliquā re, great, remarkable, distinguished in any respect: vir famā ingens, ingentior armis, Verg. A. 11, 124: gloriā, Tac. A. 11, 10: viribus opibusque, id. H. 1, 61: eloquio, Stat. S. 1, 4, 71.—
          • β With gen.: ingens virium atque animi, Sall. H. 3, 13 Dietsch: femina ingens animi, Tac. A. 1, 69: vir ingens rerum, id. H. 4, 66.—
          • γ With inf.: ingens ferre mala, Sil. 10, 216.—Comp. (poet.), Verg. A. 11, 124.—
  • II Trop., great, strong, powerful: senatus, Sil. 11, 67: Paulus, id. 17, 298: ingentis spiritus vir, Liv. 21, 1, 5: cui genus a proavis ingens, Verg. A. 12, 225.

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