I.a crumb, little bit, morsel, grain (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
I. Lit.: “mica panis,” Petr. 42: “auri,” Lucr. 1, 839: “marmoris,” Plin. 33, 4, 21, § 68: “salis,” a grain of salt, id. 22, 14, 16, § 37: “amomi,” id. 12, 18, 41, § 83: “saliens (i. e. salis) mica,” Hor. C. 3, 23, 12: “tus in micas friatur,” Plin. 12, 14, 32, § 65: “de micis puerorum,” Vulg. Marc. 7, 28.—
II. Transf.
A. A small diningroom, Mart. 2, 59, 1; Sen. Ep. 51, 12.—