pittance
pittance
subs.
Dole: V. μέτρημα, τό.
subs.
Dole: V. μέτρημα, τό.
pittance:
1. dēmensum (the daily allowance of food for a slave; called also, diurnum, diārium) what the poor fellow has barely saved out of his p., quod vix de demenso suo comparsit miser, Ter. Ph. 1, 1. 9 cf. Sen. Ep. 80, 8 (diurnum accipere).
2. stips, stĭpis, f. (a small coin or sum of money given): to hold out the hand for a p. (alms), manum ad s. porrigere, Sen. V. B. 25, 1: cf. id. Ben 4, 29, stips aeris abjecti.
3. mercēdŭla (trifling wages): for a trifling p., mercedula adductus, Cic. de Or. 1, 45, init. (Or expr. by merces, with such adjj. as, exigua, parva, tantula [tantula mercede adductus, for so trifling a p.], quantula: v.WAGES .)
1. dēmensum (the daily allowance of food for a slave; called also, diurnum, diārium) what the poor fellow has barely saved out of his p., quod vix de demenso suo comparsit miser, Ter. Ph. 1, 1. 9 cf. Sen. Ep. 80, 8 (diurnum accipere).
2. stips, stĭpis, f. (a small coin or sum of money given): to hold out the hand for a p. (alms), manum ad s. porrigere, Sen. V. B. 25, 1: cf. id. Ben 4, 29, stips aeris abjecti.
3. mercēdŭla (trifling wages): for a trifling p., mercedula adductus, Cic. de Or. 1, 45, init. (Or expr. by merces, with such adjj. as, exigua, parva, tantula [tantula mercede adductus, for so trifling a p.], quantula: v.