(adj.Adj.) : immensus (inm-), a, um, adj. inmensus
* Immeasurable, boundless, endless, vast, immense (freq. and class.; syn.: infinitus, ingens, interminatus).
* Adj.
* 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.
* Absol.
* 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.
* 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.

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