parsĭmōnĭa | parcĭmōnĭa (noun F) : (), (collat. form, PARCIMONIVM, Inscr. Donat. 35, 4), parco
* Sparingness, frugality, thrift, parsimony.
* 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. δεινὴ δ̓ ἐϝὶ πυθμένι φειδώ, Hesiod. Ἔργ. 369).
* Trop.: sunt pleraeque aptae hujus ipsius orationis parsimoniae,Cic. Or. 25, 84 (v. the passage in connection).

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