“many” in Latin

multi; non pauci; frequentes (of persons in great numbers at any place): very many, permulti; plurimi (a great number, either as a whole, or as a part of a whole, and then followed by a genitive): plerique (a large number, without respect to totality, and hence ☞ in the best writers never followed by a genitive; e.g., Cic., would say, not plerique vestrum meminerunt, but plerique memineritis): the many, multitude. ☞ Observe that multus is never put with another adjective without a copula; thus we must say, multae et graves cogitationes, or multae cogitationes eaeque graves. ☞ Observe again, that when the Latins desire to express, not the notion of a whole mass or amount, but that of a large portion of a whole, they often employ the adjective with a genitive; e.g., permulti hostium. This adjective is also often expressed by substantives, as, copia, vis, multitudo, magnus numerus, etc.; e.g., many men, multitudo, or magnus numerus, hominum; vis hominum.