(adjective) : fābŭlōsus, a, um, fabula, II.
* Fabulous, celebrated in fable (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): quae loca fabulosus Lambit Hydaspes,Hor. C. 1, 22, 7: palumbes,id. ib. 3, 4, 9: fab. aut commenticia res,Suet. Caes. 81: carmina Graecorum,rich in fables,Curt. 3, 1, 2: fabulosum arbitror de strigibus, etc.,Plin. 11, 39, 95, § 232; cf.: mihi totum de Tyndaridis fabulosum videtur,Quint. 11, 2, 16: fabulosa et externis miraculis adsimulata,Tac. A. 11, 11.— Comp.: anulus,Plin. 33, 1, 4, § 8.—Sup.: mons Atlas,Plin. 5, 1, 1, § 5.—Transf., incredible, great, fabulous: cum fabulosa multitudine,Amm. 23, 6, 7.—Adv.: fābŭ-lōse, fabulously: insulae fabulose narratae,Plin. 32, 11, 53, § 143: fabulose multa de hominum aevo referens ... et reliqua fabulosius,id. 7, 48, 49, § 153.—Comp: fabulosius canere,Amm. 23, 6.—Sup.: narrata colonia,Plin. 5, 1, 1, § 2.

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