paucŭlus, a, um
* Adj. dim. [id.], very few, very little (mostly ante- and postclass., and commonly in plur.): inter pauculos amicos, Cato ap. Front. Ep. ad Anton. 1, 2: mane, paucula etiam sciscitare prius volo,Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 52: volo te verbis pauculis,id. Ep. 3, 4, 28: loquitor paucula,Ter. Heaut. 4, 6, 24: in diebus pauculis,Plaut. Truc. 2, 8, 13: ut ibi pauculos dies esset,Cic. Att. 5, 21, 6: quare dereliquisti pauculas oves istas?Vulg. 1 Reg. 17, 28.— In sing.: post pauculum tempus,App. M. 11, p. 272, 3.

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