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here fuggefts the exiftence of that interval, in all the different 
points of which cofia finds a place. There is faid to be on the 
one hand nothing fuperfluous, and on the other nothing de- 
ficient. 
WuiLe abundantia denotes a greater plenty than copia, yet 
that implied even in it, may be occafionally carried to excefs, 
and to what in Englifh is ftyled ‘‘ fuperabundance,” when 
the quantity is fo great, as to be cumberfome and ufelefs. 
“‘ Ludos et inania honoris modo rationis atque abundantia 
** duxit, uti longe a luxuria ita fame propior *.” In the con-~ 
duct of AGRICOLA, there was on the one hand no blameable 
ceconomy, and on the other no needlefs wafte, that might be 
termed extravagance. “ Non illa quidem /uxuriofi hominis fed 
“ abundantis +.” 
Usertas differs from the two former words, in referring, 
not to the abfolute quantity alone exifting at a fpecified time, 
but to the regular fupply of a neceflary wafte, and in fuppo- 
fing the plenty denoted by all the terms uniformly continued. 
The adje@tive uber, of which it is an abftradt, takes its power 
from the fubftantive wher, fignifying that which contains the 
milk of an animal giving fuck. ‘* Nuper nati mammas appe- 
“ tunt, earumque wertate faturantur }.”” From denoting the 
regular fupply of this juice, defigned for fupporting the young 
of animals, it has been transferred to another operation of na- 
ture, vifible in the fertility of fields and trees. ‘‘ Ubertatem 
* frugum et fructuum a diis fe habere §.”—“ Facile eft reme- 
“ dium ubertatis, fterilia nullo labore vincuntur **.” 
Last of all, wbertas has been figuratively applied to that in- 
exhauftible ftore of fentiment and expreflion which forms a di- 
Vot. III. r ftinguifhed 
* Tac. Agric. 6. § Cic. de N. D. 77.4. 
+ Cic. Phil. 2. 66. ** Quind, 2. 4. 
} Cic. de N. Dy 52. a. 
