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multĭtūdo, ĭnis, f. [multus], a great number, multitude (class.; cf.: copia, vis, magnitudo).

  1. I. In gen.: nationes, quae numero hominum ac multitudine ipsā poterant in provincias nostras redundare, Cic. Prov. Cons. 12, 31: navium, Nep. Hann. 10, 4: argenti facti, Varr. ap. Non. 465, 27: sacrificiorum, Cic. de Or. 3, 19, 71.
  2. II. In partic.
    1. A. Of people, a great number, a crowd, multitude: tanta multitudo lapides ac tela conjiciebat, ut, etc., Caes. B. G. 2, 6; Nep. Milt. 3, 5; id. Arist. 1, 3: multitudine domum circumdare, Nep. Hann. 12, 4: multitudine civium factiones valuere, Sall. C. 51, 40: prima lux mediocrem multitudinem ante moenia ostendit, Liv. 7, 12, 3.
      In plur., multitudes: partim exquirebant duces multitudinum, Sall. C. 50, 1.
      1. 2. Of the common people, the crowd, the multitude (cf. turba): ex errore imperitae multitudinis, Cic. Off. 1, 19, 65: sed multitudinem haec maxime allicit, id. Fin. 1, 7, 25: multitudinis judicium, id. Tusc. 2, 26, 63; id. Clu. 29, 59; id. Sest. 58, 124: credula, Just. 2, 8, 9.
    2. B. In gram.: numerus multitudinis, or simply multitudo, the plural number, the plural: quod alia vocabula singularia sint solum ut cicer, alia multitudinis solum ut scalae … multitudinis vocabula sunt, etc., Varr. L. L. 9, § 63 Müll.: cur mel et vinum, atque id genus cetera numerum multitudinis capiunt, lacte non capiat, Gell. 19, 8, 13.
      In plur., Varr. L. L. 9, § 65 Müll.