in-nŭmĕrus, a, um, adj., countless, innumerable, numberless.
- I. In gen. (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; false reading instead of meri, Cic. de Or. 2, 22, 94; v. Orell. and Klotz): numerus, Lucr. 2, 1054: scaena est deserta, dein Risus, Ludu’ jocusque, et numeri innumeri simul omnes collacrumarunt, verses without number, Plaut. or Varr. ap. Gell. 1, 24, 3: pecunia, Tac. A. 14, 53: innumeras adversariorum copias superare, Suet. Caes. 68 med.; id. Galb. 6: turba, id. Calig. 26: post proelii innumeras caedes, Just. 2, 9, 17: gentes populique, Verg. A. 6, 706; Plin. 6, 17, 21, § 58: pyrae, Verg. A. 11, 204; miles, Ov. H. 16, 366; id. Tr. 5, 12, 20; Mart. 8, 55, 2: multitudo populorum, Plin. 6, 17, 21, § 59.
- II. In partic., without metre, prosaic: innumeros numeros doctis accentibus effer, Aus. Idyll. 4, 47.