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MorphologyDictionary- Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary
- Cooper: Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Brittanicae
- Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
- parsĭmōnĭa (parcĭmōnĭa), ae (collat. form, PARCIMONIVM, Inscr. Donat. 35, 4), f. [parco], 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).
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