The corpus record — Latin

mercedula

mercedula · f

Small wages, poor pay

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Where it lives

De Beneficiis 1 · 0.22/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 2 · 0.17/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

mercēdŭla — Lewis & Short

mercēdŭla, ae, f.dim.1. merces.

I Small wages, poor pay (class.): infimi homines mercedula adducti, Cic. de Or. 1, 45, 198: isto modo nec medico quicquam debere te nisi mercedulam dicis nec praeceptori, Sen. Ben. 6, 15, 1.—

II Hire, rent, income: constituere mercedulas praediorum, Cic. Att. 13, 11, 1.

In the wild

mercedulam Seneca, De Beneficiis 6.15.1
mercedulas Cicero, Letters to Atticus 13.11.1
mercedulas Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 12.11.14
mercedulam Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1.6.7
mercedula Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 2.15.9

Where it came from

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