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parsimonia

parsimonia · f

sparingness

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Where it lives

Didius Julianus 1 · 6.29/10k
Alcibiades 1 · 4.95/10k
Verus 1 · 4.86/10k
Antoninus Pius 1 · 4.46/10k
De Provinciis Consularibus In Senatu 2 · 3.9/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 2 · 2.65/10k
De Exhortatione Castitatis Liber 1 · 2.56/10k
Ausonii Burdigalensis Vasatis Gratiarum Actio Ad Grati Angratianum Imperatorem Pro Consulatu 1 · 2.41/10k
Severus 1 · 2.37/10k
Paradoxa stoicorum ad M. Brutum 1 · 2.32/10k
Pro P. Quinctio 2 · 2.31/10k
Mostellaria 2 · 2.08/10k

Densest 12 of 47 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

parsĭmōnĭa — Lewis & Short

parsĭmōnĭa (parcĭmōnĭa), ae (collat. form, PARCIMONIVM, Inscr. f.parco,

Donat. 35, 4),

I sparingness, frugality, thrift, parsimony.

I Lit.: dies noctesque estur, bibitur, neque quisquam parsimoniam adhibet, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 78: parsimonia et duritia, id. ib. 1, 2, 75; id. Truc. 2, 2, 55; Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 32; Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 3, § 7: res familiaris conservatur diligentiā et parsimoniā, id. Off. 2, 24, 87: non intellegunt homines, quam magnum vectigal sit parsimonia, id. Par. 6, 3, 49: instrumenti et supellectilis, Suet. Aug. 73.—In plur. (anteand post-class.): veteres mores veteresque parsimoniae, Plaut. Trin. 4, 3, 21: adesto castis, Christe, parsimoniis, i. e. at the fasts, Prud. Cath. 7, 3: sine parsimoniā, lavishly, Amm. 15, 4, 8.—Prov.: sera parsimonia in fundo est, it is too late to spare when all is spent, Sen. Ep. 1, 5 (cf. the Gr. deinh\ d' e)vi\ puqme/ni feidw/, Hesiod. *e)/rg. 369).—

II Trop.: sunt pleraeque aptae hujus ipsius orationis parsimoniae, Cic. Or. 25, 84 (v. the passage in connection).

In the wild

parsimonia Ausonius, Ausonii Burdigalensis Vasatis Gratiarum Actio Ad Grati Angratianum Imperatorem Pro Consulatu 16
parsimonia Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1.1.5
parsimonia Terence, Heautontimorumenos 3.1
parsimoniae Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 4.2.77
parsimonia Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 34 p12
parsimonia Seneca, De Beneficiis 4.1.2

6 of 89 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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