copia

1.

cōpĭa, ae, f. [co-ops], abundant power, wealth, riches, abundance (very freq. in all periods and species of composition).

I.

Of material objects.

A.

Of possessions, resources, wealth, supplies, riches, prosperity (syn.: divitiae, opes;

opp. inopia): pro re nitorem et gloriam pro copiā,

Plaut. Aul. 3, 6, 5: divitiarum fructus in copiā est;

copiam autem declarat satietas rerum et abundantia,

Cic. Par. 6, 2, 47; Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 32:

copiis rei familiaris locupletes et pecuniosi,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 15, 44:

utrum copiane sit agri, vectigalium, pecuniae, an penuria,

id. Inv. 2, 39, 115:

frugum,

id. Dom. 7, 17: publicani suas rationes et copias in illam provinciam contulerunt, id. Imp. Pomp. [p. 467] 7, 17:

circumfluere omnibus copiis atque in omnium rerum abundantiā vivere,

id. Lael. 15, 52 and 55; id. Deiot. 5, 14; Caes. B. G. 4, 4 fin.; Hor. C. 3, 29, 9:

Plenior ut si quos delectet copia justo,

id. S. 1, 1, 57:

Si recte frueris non est ut copia major Ab Jove donari possit tibi,

id. Ep. 1, 12, 2; Ov. M. 8, 838:

exercitus omnium rerum abundabat copiā,

Caes. B. C. 1, 49:

abundans omni copiā rerum est regio,

Liv. 29, 25, 12: bonam copiam ejurare, to abjure property, i. e. to declare one's self exempt through poverty, Cic. Fam. 9, 16, 7.— Poet.:

omnis copia narium ( = luxus odorum, Schol.),

Hor. C. 2, 15, 6.—

B.

In respect to other objects, fulness, copiousness, multitude, number, abundance:

meretricum,

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 6, 34:

tanta copia venustatum aderat,

id. Poen. 5, 4, 5:

quorum (librorum) habeo Antii festivam copiam,

Cic. Att. 2, 6, 1:

tanta copia virorum fortium atque innocentium,

id. Imp. Pomp. 10, 27; cf.:

tanta doctissimorum hominum,

Sall. H. 1, 1 Dietsch:

magna latronum in eā regione,

id. C. 28, 4:

tubicinum,

id. J. 93, 8:

procorum,

Ov. M. 10, 356:

nimborum,

Lucr. 6, 511 et saep.—

2.

In milit. lang. copia, and far more freq. in plur. copiae, ārum, men, troops, forces, army.

(α).

Sing.:

omnis armatorum copia,

Cic. Att. 13, 52, 2:

eā copiā, quam secum eduxit, se hanc civitatem oppressurum arbitratur,

id. Mur. 37, 78:

ex omni copiā eligere aliquos,

Caes. B. G. 1, 48; id. B. C. 1, 45; Pompei. ap. Cic. Att. 8, 12, A, 3; Sall. C. 56, 2 Kritz; 61, 5.—

(β).

More freq. plur., orig. of a body of troops as made up of smaller bodies; cf. Engi. troops; the forces, troops, etc.:

armare quam maximas copias,

Sall. J. 13, 1:

copias secum adducere,

Ter. Eun. 4, 6, 17; cf.:

in angustum oppido nunc meae coguntur copiae,

id. Heaut. 4, 2, 2: cogere copias Brundusium, Cn. Pomp. ap. Cic. Att. 8, 12, A, 3; id. Fam. 3, 3, 2; Caes. B. G. 1, 11; 1, 12; 1, 13; 1, 25; Nep. Them. 2, 4; id. Alcib. 8, 2; Liv. 40, 44, 3 et saep.—

II.

Of immaterial objects, fulness, copiousness, multitude, abundance.

A.

In gen.:

Quam tibi de quāvis unā re versibus omnis argumentorum sit copia missa per auris,

Lucr. 1, 417:

rerum copia verborum copiam gignit,

Cic. de Or. 3, 31, 125; cf.

rerum,

Sall. C. 2, 10; Quint. 7, prooem. §

1: inventionis,

id. 11, 3, 56:

orationis,

id. 4, 2, 117:

sermonis,

id. 8, 6, 5:

abundare debet orator exemplorum copiā,

id. 12, 4, 1:

tanta facultas dicendi vel copia,

Cic. Verr. 1, 4, 10:

verborum,

Quint. 1, 8, 8:

in dicendo ubertas et copia,

Cic. de Or. 1, 12, 50:

dicendi,

id. Red. Sen. 1, 1; id. Top. 18, 67; Quint. 10, 6, 6; and so of fulness in expression, absol., copia, Cic. Brut. 11, 44; id. Fam. 5, 12, 3; Quint. 1, 8, 17:

copias eloquentiae ponere in medio,

id. 7, 10, 15:

Platonis,

id. 10, 1, 108:

Senecae,

id. 12, 10, 11.—

B.

Esp., in reference to action, ability, power, might, opportunity, facilities, means of doing a thing.

(α).

With gen. gerund.:

ut mi ejus facias conveniundi copiam,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 90; so,

facere,

Ter. Heaut. prol. 29; cf.

dare,

id. ib. 28; Verg. A. 1, 520 al.:

edundi,

Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 72:

cunctandi,

id. Ep. 1, 2, 58:

illius inspectandi,

id. Bacch. 3, 3, 84:

societatis amicitiaeque conjungendae,

Sall. J. 83, 1 al. —

(β).

With inf.:

quibus in otio vel magnifice vel molliter vivere copia erat,

Sall. C. 17, 6; so Cat. 64, 366. —

(γ).

With ut:

cum copiam istam mihi et potestatem facis, ut ego, etc.,

Plaut. Capt. 2, 3, 14; id. Mil. 3, 1, 174; Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 87 al.—

(δ).

Absol.:

neque edepol facio: neque, si cupiam, copia est,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 76; id. Trin. 1, 2, 98 al.:

ne quam aliam quaerat copiam ac te deserat,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 54; cf. Plaut. Capt. 2, 1, 22.—So pro copiā, according to one's ability, as one is able: volo habere hic aratiunculam pro copiā hic aput vos. Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 46:

pro copiā supplicare Lari familiari,

Cato, R. R. 143, 2:

dona pro copiā portantes,

Liv. 26, 11, 9:

in vehiculis pro copiā cujusque adornatīs,

Curt. 9, 10, 26.—Esp. with the implication that one can do little: pro eā copiā quae Athenis erat, Sulp. ap. Cic. Fam. 4, 12, 3:

pro rei copiā,

Sall. J. 90, 1:

ludi funebres additi pro copiā provinciali et castrensi apparatu,

Liv. 28, 21, 10:

iudos pro temporis hujus copiā magnifici apparatus fecerunt,

id. 27, 6, 19. —

2.

Access to a person, with gen.: quando ejus copia est. Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 45; cf.:

obsecrat, ut sibi ejus faciat copiam,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 63.

2.

Cōpĭa, ac, f.

I.

The goddess of abundance, Plaut. Ps. 2, 4, 46:

bona,

Ov. M. 9, 88:

opulenta,

Hor. C. 1, 17, 16; id. C. S. 60 al.—

II.

An appellation of the town Lugdunum (Lyons), in Gaul, Inscr. Orell. 194; 2325.—

Hence, COPIENSIS,

Inscr. Murat. 753, 3.