The Nazi courts at Nuremberg had a multitude of men named Hoffmann (various spellings), often signing a document with the surname and no other identifying information.
And in a rudderless confusion a multitude of men and women fled down the broad river-ways to that one last hope of men - the open sea.
He decided then to keep humble, constant, happy company with the multitude of men and women who had tried to express such things.
It well illustrates Hobbes's theory that, "A multitude of men, are made one person, when they are by one man, or one person, represented; so that it be done with the consent of every one of that multitude in particular" (Hobbes, Leviathan, I.16.13).
We learn how her mother, Miss Ophelia, then 15, watching this traduced multitude of men, women and children make its way down the dock, felt relieved that "the mean slaves, the scary ones, were getting on the boat, and the nice people, those who always greeted her and made a fuss about her red hair, they were staying".
It behooves us, however, to remember also that de Tocqueville warns about the "oppression by which democratic nations are menaced... an innumerable multitude of men, all equal and alike, incessantly endeavoring to procure the petty and paltry pleasures with which they glut their lives".
Even the experience of growing up to find any one of a multitude of men - could be Otto, could be your father, could be your teacher - in bed with your mother and having sex with her while you were tucked up with her, the kind of childhood trauma you would expect to guarantee a lifetime's season ticket to the psychotherapists, doesn't actually appear to have harmed the next generation, she argues.
For how is one to believe that by such a sacrifice of a single man so great a multitude of men turned at once to safety and to victory?
3 This announcement p221 highly elated Galba, and there came running to his door a multitude of men who had gained complete confidence as the result of Icelus' report.
A multitude of men were also captured, among them Hamza Kastrioti.
