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frūgālis , e, adj. frux. *
I. Of or belonging to fruits: maturitas, App. de Mundo, p. 71, 29.—
II. (Acc. to frugi, v. frux, II. B.) Economical, thrifty, temperate, frugal, provident, careful; and in gen., worthy, virtuous; only in comp. and sup. (Quint. 1, 6, 17, characterizes the use of the positive frugalis for the usual frugi as pedantry): “villa frugalior,Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 3: “tanton ... Lesbonicus factus est frugalior?Plaut. Trin. 3, 1, 9: “dedo patri me nunciam, ut frugalior sim, quam volt,Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 3; Sen. Contr. 3, 21, 20; 5, 31, 13 al.—Sup.: “cum optimus colonus, parcissimus, modestissimus, frugalissimus esset,Cic. de Or. 2, 71, 287: “homines frugalissimi,id. Fl. 29, 71.— Hence, adv.: frūgālĭter (acc. to II.), moderately, temperately, thriftily, frugally, economically: “rem sobrie et frugaliter accurare,Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 38; id. Pers. 4, 1, 1; 6: “vivere (with parce),Hor. S. 1, 4, 107; cf.: “recte is negat, umquam bene cenasse Gallonium ... quia quod bene, id recte, frugaliter, honeste: ille porro prave, nequiter, turpiter cenabat,Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 25: “loqui,id. ib. 2, 9, 25; cf.: “de sublimibus magnifice, de tenuioribus frugaliter dicere,Fronto, Ep. ad Ver. 1 Mai.—Comp.: “vivere,Lact. Ira D. 20.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (7):
    • Plautus, Persa, 4.1
    • Plautus, Trinummus, 3.1
    • Horace, Satires, 1.4.107
    • Plautus, Epidicus, 4.1
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 2.71
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 2.8
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 1, 6.17
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