(adjective) : ingens, tis, 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. 3, 1, 1 (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.
* 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.
* 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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