Magnus numerus

Latin Construction

magn|us numer|us. masc.

1. A large number or amount.

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Loci

• αʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 5.20:

Hic a. d. iii Id. Oct. magnum numerum hostium occidimus.

Here on October 13 we killed a large number of the enemy.

• βʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 3.6:

Quoniam id non contigit, erit hoc quoque in magno numero nostrorum malorum.

Since it didn't happen, that too goes among the vast number of our misfortunes.

• γʹ Cicero, Ad Atticum 5.21:

Quacumque iter feci, nulla vi, nullo iudicio, nulla contumelia, auctoritate et cohortatione perfeci ut et Graeci et cives Romani qui frumentum compresserant magnum numerum populis pollicerentur.

Wherever I travelled, without force, without court orders, without abusiveness, with my influence and encouragement, I made it so that both Greeks and Roman citizens who had withheld grain would promise a large amount to the people.