exĭgŭĭtas (noun F) : exiguus
* Scantiness in measure or number, smallness, littleness, shortness, scarcity (class.).
* With gen.: cum paucitatem militum ex castrorum exiguitate cognoscerent,Caes. B. G. 4, 30, 1: pellium,id. ib. 4, 1 fin.: itaque in quibus (voluptatibus) propter earum exiguitatem obscuratio consequitur,Cic. Fin. 4, 12, 29: copiarum, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 6, 1; cf. in the follg.: congiariorum,Quint. 6, 3, 52: cibi,Col. 7, 5, 5: fisci,Suet. Claud. 28: fructuum,Dig. 19, 2, 15, § 5: temporis tanta fuit exiguitas, ut, etc.,Caes. B. G. 2, 21, 5; 2, 33, 2; Liv. 24, 17, 4 al.
* Absol.: ubi Crassus animadvertit, suas copias propter exiguitatem non facile diduci,Caes. B. G. 3, 23, 7.

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