There is some hope, small enough to my mind, but favoured in this district, that Afranius has fought with Trebonius in the Pyrenees and driven him back, and that your Page 114 cohortibus, summa autem Afranium cum magnis copiis adventare.
Pompeium cummagnis copiis iter in Page 313 necessary to go before anything was certain.
Compare Cic Fam IV iii 2 'a multis etmagnis molestiis abes'; I have found no parallel from verse.
For the device of calling to witness the scenes of military exploits compare Catullus LXIV 357 'testis erit magnis uirtutibus unda Scamandri' and the passages there cited by Fordyce.
For the image of the poet drinking from Hippocrene see Prop III iii 5-6 'paruaque tam magnis admoram fontibus ora, / unde pater sitiens Ennius ante bibit'.
Tarda solet magnis rebus inesse fides=--Men are slow to repose confidence in undertakings of magnitude.
In magnis et voluisse sat est=--In great things it is enough even to have willed.
The amplitude and unchecked volume of his diction flow out of the mental conditions, described in the lines,-- Usque adeo largos haustus e fontibu' magnis Lingua meo suavis diti de pectore fundet.
In alia insula faciunt suos infirmos ante mortem ab eductis in hoc magnis canibus strangulari, manducantes in conuiuio carnes pro optimo ferculo venationis.
Rex Baldwinus in tubis et cornibus a Iaphet egrediens, in manu robusta equitum et peditum virtutem illorum crudeli bello est aggressus, magnis hinc et hinc clamoribus intonantes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "magnis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
