paupĕrĭes (noun F) : id.
* Poverty (poet. and in post-Aug. prose for the class. paupertas).
* Lit.: quod in pauperie meā senex graviter gemam, Enn. ap. Non. 494, 5 (Trag. v. 236 Vahl.): erum intulit in pauperiem,Plaut. Truc. 2, 7, 21 (al. inpulit); Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 59: pauperiem et duros perferre labores,Verg. A. 6, 437: angustam pauperiem pati,Hor. C. 3, 2, 1: immunda,id. Ep. 2, 2, 199: importuna,id. C. 3, 16, 37: dura,id. ib. 4, 9, 49: proba,id. ib. 3, 29, 55: vera,Tac. H. 4, 47; Lact. 6, 20, 25: vixit in summā pauperie et paene inopiā,Suet. Gram. 11: impoenitendae pauperiei se committere,App. M. 11, p. 271, 35; cf. paupertas.
* Transf., in jurid. Lat., injury, damage, loss, which one suffers from an animal (perh. mentioned in the Twelve Tables): si quadrupes pauperiem fecisse dicatur,Dig. 9, tit. 9; Paul. Sent. 1, 15, 1: pauperies est damnum sine injuriā facientis datum: nec enim potest animal injuriam fecisse, quod sensu caret,Dig. 9, 1, 1.

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