Parcus, Adiectiuum. Plaut.Sparing: sauing: nigh or nigars: scarse in expences.Prodigus & luxuriosus, Parcus, & diligens, contraria. Author ad Heren. Senes patci. Horat. Parcus & tenax pater.Cic.Colonus parcissimus, frugalissimus.Cic. Parcus, cum genitiuo: vt Parcus opum. Claudian. A niggard or sparer of his goodes.Aceti veteris non parcus. Horat. Cruoris parcus. Claud. Loth to sheddebloud.Pœnæ parcus. Claud. A small punisher: one that punisheth little.Ciuium sanguinis parcum credidêre.Tacit.They thought him to be very loth to haue his citizens siaine.Manu parca offerre aliquid. Horat. Parcissimus honorum.Plin. iun.One that very little desireth honour. Parcus, ablatiuo iunctum: vt Parcus opera.Plaut.He that is more idle than occupied: no great labourer.Parcus comitatu.Plin. iun.He that vseth a small traine.Parcus in ædificando, in victu.Plin. iun.Cic.Parcissimus æstimator beneficiorum.Plin. iun.One that very little esteemeth benefites done to him.Cultor deorum parcus & infrequens. Horat. Acies parca, Vide ACIES.Ira parcior meo merito.Ouid.Lesse angry than I haue deserued.Iuuentus parca magnum donandi. Horat. Lucerna parca. Propert. Sale parco cõtingere aliquid.Virg.To salt or powder a litle: to kerne with salt.Parcus & breuis somnus.Plin. iun.Tellus parca.Stat. Parcus & Elegans, contraria.Cic.Parcè. Aduerbium. Plaut.Scarcely: niggardly: nighly: fayze & softly: sparingly: sauingly.Parcè & duriter viuere.Terent.Sparingly and hardly.Parcè parcus.Plaut.A very niggarde.Parcè & continÊter viuere, cui opponitur Diffluere luxuria.Cic. Nimium parcè. Terent.Parcè & restrictè facere.Cicer.To do a thing sparingly and very little.Frumentum parcè & paulatim metiri. Cæsar. To serue out corne sparingly and a little at once.Exigere pretium parcius Ouid.Profiteri amores parcé.Ouid.To speake very little of his loue.Parcè vti verbis.Cic.To speake but little.Parcè & timidè de aliquo scribere. Cecinna Ciceroni. To write a little of one and as though he feared to write to much.Parcius. Plinius, Pugnacibus mustis crapulæ plus inditur, lenibus parcius. Lesse.Dicere parcius de laude alicuius.Cic.To speake lesse of ones prayse.Obijcere aliquid alicui parcius.Virg.Vexare aliquem parcius.Ouid.Parcissimè facere potestatem aquæ. Colum. To permitte to haue very little water.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
parcus, a, um, adj., = pau=ros [v. parco], sparing in any thing, esp. in expenditure; in a good and bad sense, frugal, thrifty, economical; niggardly, penurious, parsimonious (syn.: tenax, restrictus). I.Lit.(a).Absol.: detrusisti me ad senem parcissimum, Plaut. Aul. 2, 5, 9: patre parco ac tenaci, Cic. Cael. 15, 36: optimus colonus, parcissimus, modestissimus, frugalissimus, id. de Or. 2, 71, 287: parcumque genus patiensque laborum, Ov. M. 7, 656: parcā manu offerre aliquid, Hor. C. 3, 16, 43.—(b). With gen.: veteris non parcus aceti, Hor. S. 2, 2, 62: donandi parca juventus, id. ib. 2, 5, 79: pecuniae, Tac. H. 1, 49: pecuniae parcus ac tenax, Suet. Tib. 46.—B. In gen., sparing, chary, moderate in any thing: operā haud fui parcus meā, Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 14: nimium parcus in largiendā civitate, Cic. Balb. 22, 50: non tam vereor, ne me in laudibus suis parcum, quam ne nimium putet, Plin. Pan. 3, 3: quam modica cultu, quam parca comitatu, id. ib. 83, 7: civium sanguinis parcus, Tac. H. 3, 75: parcissimus somni, Luc. 9, 590: parcissimus vini, Suet. Aug. 77: acies non parca fugae, Sil. 10, 30: beneficiorum parcissimus aestimator, Plin. Pan. 21, 2: parcus Deorum cultor, Hor. C. 1, 34, 1: in libidinem projecti, in cibum parci, Just. 41, 3, 13.—With inf.: parcusque lacessere Martem, Sil. 1, 680: haud parci Martem coluisse, id. 8, 464.—In gen., moderate, not rash nor self-indulgent: somnus sanitatis in homine parco, Vulg. Ecclus. 31, 24.—Comp.: parcior somni, Just. 11, 13, 2.—Sup.: parcissimus somni, Luc. 9, 590.—II.Transf., spare, scanty, little, small, slight (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): parco sale contingere, Verg. G. 3, 403: tellus, Stat. S. 4, 5, 13: lucerna, Prop. 4 (5), 3, 60: vulnus, Sil. 16, 111: merito parcior ira meo, Ov. P. 1, 2, 98: questaque sum vento lintea parca dari, id. H. 21, 79: optima mors parca quae venit apta die,
after a short time
, Prop. 3, 3, 40 (Parcae quae venit acta die, id. 3, 4, 18 Müll.): et brevis somnus, Plin. Pan. 49.—Adv., in two forms, parce (class.) and parciter (ante- and post-class.). A. Form parcē. 1.Sparingly, frugally, thriftily; penuriously, parsimoniously: parce parcus, Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 35: vivere parce, continenter, severe, sobrie, Cic. Off. 1, 30, 106; cf.: parce ac duriter se habere, Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 20: parce et duriter vitam agere, id. And. 1, 1, 47: nimium parce facere sumptum, id. ib. 2, 6, 19: frumentum parce et paulatim metiri, Caes. B. G. 7, 71: cur id tam parce tamque restricte faciant, Cic. Fin. 2, 13, 42: parce seminat, Vulg. 2 Cor. 9, 6.—Comp.: implet manum parcius, Juv. 6, 546.—2. In gen., sparingly, moderately, cautiously: scripsi de te parce et timide, Cic. Fam. 6, 7, 3: parce et molliter aliquem laedere, id. ib. 1, 9, 23: gaudere, Phaedr. 4, 16: mirari, Sil. 10, 474; 15, 756; Plin. Ep. 5, 16, 3; 5, 7, 4.— Comp.: parcius dicere de laude alicujus, Cic. Mur. 13, 29: parcius ista viris tamen obicienda memento, Verg. E. 3, 7: parcius Andromachen vexavit Achaia victrix, Ov. H. 8, 13: parcius quatiunt fenestras,
rarely
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, Hor. C. 1, 25, 1; Quint. 9, 2, 69.— Sup.: civitatem Romanam parcissime dedit, Suet. Aug. 40: ut parcissime dicam, nemo historicorum commendavit magis, Quint. 10, 1, 101.—B. Form parcĭter, sparingly, Pompon. ap. Non. 515, 6: praelibare, Claud. Mam. praef.