ubertas

ūbertas (on coins also VBERITAS; v. Rasche, Lex. Rei Num. V. 2, p. 759), ātis, f. [id.], richness, fulness, plenteousness, plenty, abundance, copiousness, fruitfulness, fertility, productiveness (class.; syn.: fecunditas, copia).

I.

Lit.:

mammarum,

Cic. N. D. 2, 51, 128:

Asia ubertate agrorum... facile omnibus terris antecellat,

id. Imp. Pomp. 6, 14:

amnium fontiumque,

Plin. 3, 5, 6, § 41:

ubertas in percipiendis fructibus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 98, § 227:

frugum et fructuum,

id. N. D. 3, 36, 68; cf.: rami bacarum ubertate incurvescere, Poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 28, 69:

vini (opp. frumenti inopia),

Suet. Dom. 7:

pabuli,

Plin. 37, 13, 77, § 201:

lactis,

id. 22, 22, 39, § 82:

piscium,

Just. 18, 3:

praedae,

id. 25, 1:

opum,

Sil. 15, 412.—

II.

Trop.

A.

Of mind, character, etc., richness, fulness:

ubertates et copiae virtutis,

Cic. N. D. 2, 66, 167:

ingenii,

id. post Red. in Sen. 1, 1; id. Marcell. 2, 4:

immortalis ingenii ubertas beatissima,

Quint. 10, 1, 109; Ambros. Fug. Saec. 8, 48:

utilitatis,

Cic. de Or. 1, 44, 195.—

B.

Of style or language, copiousness, fulness:

ubertas in dicendo et copia,

Cic. de Or. 1, 12, 50:

ubertas et quasi silva dicendi,

id. Or. 3, 12:

illa Livii lactea ubertas,

Quint. 10, 1, 32:

verborum,

id. 10, 1, 13; 10, 1, 109;

12, 2, 23: oratoris,

Plin. Ep. 2, 3, 1; Gell. 12, 1, 24.