Pusillus, Diminutiuum Pusio, pusiônis, antiquo vocabulo. Shorte: little: small. vt, Pusillus homo. Mart. A little man.Animus pusillus. Hor. A faint heart or courage.Illud est pusilli animi.Cic.Caput oppidò pusillum. Catul. A verie little head.Et firmis causa pusilla nocet, Ouid.Epistola pusilla.Cic.A short epistle.Homo pusillus. Catul. An abiect fellowe.Libelli pusilli & contempti.Cic.Small billes of no estimation or credite.Habuimus in Tusculano quasi pusillam Romam: ranta crat in his locis multitudo.Cic.We had as it were a little Rome, &c.Testis pusillus processit. Ci. A stender wituesse came foorthe.Villula valde pusilla.Cic. Vxor pusilla. Hor. Pusillum laxamenti. Trebonius ad Ciceronem. A little release or recreation.Qui pusillum intelligit.Plin. iun.That vnderstandeth but little.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
pŭsillus, a, um, adj. dim. [pusus], very little, very small, petty, insignificant (class.). I.Lit.: pueri, Cato, R. R. 157, 10: testis, Cic. de Or. 2, 60, 145; cf. Hor. S. 1, 5, 69: terra homines nunc educat pusillos, Juv. 15, 70: mus, Plaut. Truc. 4, 4, 15: villula valde pusilla, Cic. Att. 12, 27, 1: folia (herbae), Plin. 25, 13, 103, 162: epistula, Cic. Att. 6, 1, 23: pusilli et contempti libelli, id. Verr. 2, 2, 75, 185: cui satis una Farris libra foret, gracili sic tamque pusillo, Hor. S. 1, 5, 69: vox,
small
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thin
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weak
, Quint. 11, 3, 32: habuimus in Cumano quasi pusillam Romam, Cic. Att. 5, 2, 2.—Comp.: maritus quovis puero pusillior, App. M. 5, p. 163, 5: pusillo animo, Vulg. Col. 3, 21.— Absol.: pŭsillum, i, n., a very little, a trifle: nactus pusillum laxamenti, Treb. ap. Cic. Fam. 12, 16, 3: aphaca pusillo altior lenticula est,
a trifle taller
, Plin. 27, 5, 21, 38: pusillum a vero discedere,
a little
, Quint. 8, 6, 28; cf. Cato, R. R. 90: post pusillum,
