mendicum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →mendicus, mendica, mendicum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Cassell's Latin Dictionary
poor as a beggar, beggarly; paltry, pitiful;
acc. sg. (m.)acc. sg. (n.)nom. sg. (n.)voc. sg. (n.)
Examples
- T
Rudens
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...aqua.— II.vi LABRAX Qui homo sese miserum et mendicum volet,~ Neptuno credat sese atque aetatem suam..." - T
Bacchides
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...umquam de mea pecunia ramenta fiat plumea propensior, mendicum malim mendicando vincere. numquam edepol viva me inridebit..." - P
Andria
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...profectast illinc: clamitent me sycophantam, hereditatem persequi mendicum. tum ipsam despoliare non lubet. MY. o optume hospes..." - M
V
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...ultra quod accidentium mensura non exit, in orbitate mendicum. riget squalidi capitis concreta canities, vigor pristini vultus vacuis..."