The corpus record

μικρο-λόγος

mikrologos

counting trifles, careful about trifles

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Where it lives

Against Neaera 1 · 1.1/10k
Panathenaicus 1 · 0.63/10k
Symposium 1 · 0.57/10k
Siracides 1 · 0.54/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2 · 0.19/10k

What it meant

μικρο-λόγος · mikro-logos — LSJ

counting trifles, careful about trifles

counting trifles, careful about trifles; and so,

1 caring about petty expenses, penurious

caring about petty expenses, penurious, D. 59.36, Thphr. Char. 10.1, Hyp. Fr. 255, etc.; σὺ δὲ μ. ἄρʼ οὐ θέλων καινὰς πρίασθαι (sc. ἐμβάδας) Men. 109.4.

2 cavilling about trifles, captious, petty

cavilling about trifles, captious, μ. καὶ μεμψίμοιρος Isoc. 12.8; μ. καὶ μικρολύπους Plu. Superst. 2.171b; petty, Pl. Smp. 210d. Adv. -γως Plu. QConv. 2.730b.

In the wild

μικρολόγοι · mikrologoi Demosthenes, Against Neaera speaker.36 (DIORISIS sentence 89)
μικρολόγον · mikrologon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4.7 (DIORISIS sentence 3504)
μικρολόγους · mikrologous Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4.7 (DIORISIS sentence 3505)
μικρολόγον · mikrologon Isocrates, Panathenaicus 7 (DIORISIS sentence 11)
σμικρολόγος · smikrologos Plato, Symposium 210 (DIORISIS sentence 759)
μικρολόγῳ · mikrologōi Septuaginta, Siracides 14

Where it came from

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