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paulisper

paulisper · adv

for a little while

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Where it lives

Quomodo Substantiae in Eo Quod Sint Bonae Sint Cum Non Sint Substantialia Bona 2 · 14.57/10k
Florida 4 · 5.08/10k
De consolatione philosophiae 12 · 4.88/10k
Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo 2 · 4.2/10k
De Bello Africo 5 · 3.84/10k
Quomodo Trinitas Unus Deus Ac Non Tres Dii (De Trinitate) 1 · 3.44/10k
De agri cultura 5 · 3.2/10k
Apologia 6 · 2.79/10k
Ausonii Burdigalensis Vasatis Gratiarum Actio Ad Grati Angratianum Imperatorem Pro Consulatu 1 · 2.41/10k
Jugurtha 5 · 2.36/10k
Res Gestae 29 · 2.27/10k
Adelphi 2 · 2.02/10k

Densest 12 of 70 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

paulisper — Lewis & Short

paulisper (paull-), adv.paulumper,

I for a little while, for a short time (cf. parumper): quasi solstitialis herba, paulisper fui: Repente exortus sum, repentino occidi, Plaut. Ps. 1, 1, 36; id. Aul. 4, 10, 75: paulisper mane, id. As. 5, 2, 30; Ter. Ad. 2, 2, 45: paulisper tace, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 41; id. Rud. 2, 7, 32; id. Bacch. 3, 3, 12: lectica paulisper deposita, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 24, § 53; id. Leg. 1, 13, 39: paulisper intermittere proelium, Caes. B. G. 3, 5.—

(b) With dum or donec, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 65; id. Rud. 4, 3, 97: Milo paulisper, dum se uxor, ut fit, comparat, commoratus est, Cic. Mil. 10, 28: sedit tacitus paulisper, donec nuntiatum est, etc., Liv. 28, 26 fin.

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