ūbertas — Lewis & Short
ūbertas (on coins also VBERITAS; v. Rasche, Lex. Rei Num. V. 2, p. 759), ātis, f.id.,
I 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.