I.countless, innumerable, numberless.
I. In gen. (poet. and in post-Aug. prose; “false reading instead of meri,” Cic. de Or. 2, 22, 94; “v. Orell. and Klotz): numerus,” Lucr. 2, 1054: scaena est deserta, dein Risus, Ludu' jocusque, et numeri innumeri simul omnes collacrumarunt, verses without number, Plaut. or Varr. ap. Gell. 1, 24, 3: “pecunia,” Tac. A. 14, 53: “innumeras adversariorum copias superare,” Suet. Caes. 68 med.; id. Galb. 6: “turba,” id. Calig. 26: “post proelii innumeras caedes,” Just. 2, 9, 17: “gentes populique,” Verg. A. 6, 706; Plin. 6, 17, 21, § 58: “pyrae,” Verg. A. 11, 204; “miles,” Ov. H. 16, 366; id. Tr. 5, 12, 20; Mart. 8, 55, 2: “multitudo populorum,” Plin. 6, 17, 21, § 59.—
II. In partic., without metre, prosaic: “innumeros numeros doctis accentibus effer,” Aus. Idyll. 4, 47.