Magnitudo

Latin-English

magnĭtūd|ō, -ĭnis. (maɲ.ɲiˈtu.do) fem.

1. Size, extent, magnitude; greatness.

[magnus, from Proto-Indo-European *maǵ-no-.]

Loci

• αʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 14.17a:

Hoc si tibi fortuna quadam contigisset, gratularer felicitati tuae, sed contigit magnitudine cum animi tum etiam ingeni atque consili.

If this had happened to you because of some good fortune I would have congratulated your luck, but it happened because of the greatness, not only of your spirit, but also of your talent and foresight.

• βʹ Cicero, Ad Familiares 12.23:

Neque enim, quae tu propter magnitudinem et animi et ingenii moderate fers, ea non ulciscenda sunt, etiamsi non sunt dolenda.

The things that you are dealing with so evenhandedly because of the greatness both of your spirit and of your character—they are not to go unavenged, even though they're not causing you any grief.

• γʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 1.17:

Mihi enim perspecta est et ingenuitas et magnitudo animi tui.

For I am fully aware of both the nobility and the greatness of your soul.

• δʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 1.19:

Non destiti eadem animi magnitudine in re publica versari et illam institutam ac susceptam dignitatem tueri

I have not ceased to involve myself in the republic with the same greatness of mind and preserve that position I set up and took on.