The corpus record — Latin

pauperies

pauperies · f

poverty

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Where it lives

Carmina 7 · 5.27/10k
Satyrarum libri 5 · 3.52/10k
Epistulae 3 · 3.03/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 2 · 2.37/10k
Stichus 1 · 1.61/10k
Aulularia 1 · 1.45/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Metamorphoses 5 · 0.94/10k
Heautontimorumenos 1 · 0.91/10k
Carmina 2 · 0.89/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

paupĕrĭes — Lewis & Short

paupĕrĭes, ēi, f.id.,

I poverty (poet. and in post-Aug. prose for the class. paupertas).

I Lit.: quod in pauperie meā senex graviter gemam, Enn. ap. Non. 494, 5 (Trag. v. 236 Vahl.): erum intulit in pauperiem, Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 21 (al. inpulit); Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 59: pauperiem et duros perferre labores, Verg. A. 6, 437: angustam pauperiem pati, Hor. C. 3, 2, 1: immunda, id. Ep. 2, 2, 199: importuna, id. C. 3, 16, 37: dura, id. ib. 4, 9, 49: proba, id. ib. 3, 29, 55: vera, Tac. H. 4, 47; Lact. 6, 20, 25: vixit in summā pauperie et paene inopiā, Suet. Gram. 11: impoenitendae pauperiei se committere, App. M. 11, p. 271, 35; cf. paupertas.—

II Transf., in jurid. Lat., injury, damage, loss, which one suffers from an animal (perh. mentioned in the Twelve Tables): si quadrupes pauperiem fecisse dicatur, Dig. 9, tit. 9; Paul. Sent. 1, 15, 1: pauperies est damnum sine injuriā facientis datum: nec enim potest animal injuriam fecisse, quod sensu caret, Dig. 9, 1, 1.

In the wild

pauperiem Vergil, Aeneid 6.437
pauperie Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1.15.p1
pauperiem Horace, Carmina 3.29
pauperiem Horace, Epistulae 1.10.39
pauperiem Plautus, Stichus 1.3
pauperiem Sidonius Apollinaris, Carmina 14.25

6 of 36 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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