I.a small number, fewness, scarcity, paucity (class.): “quanta oratorum sit semperque fuerit paucitas,” Cic. de Or. 1, 2, 8: “in summā paucitate amicorum,” id. Fam. 4, 11, 1: “portuum,” Caes. B. G. 3, 9: “paucitatem militum Caesaris despiciens,” id. B. C. 3, 111: “loci,” Liv. 2, 50, 10: “quae res et paucitatem eorum insignem et multitudinem Etruscorum . . . faciebat,” id. 2, 50, 8: “nimia paucitas suorum,” id. 28, 3, 8.—Without a gen.: de pantheris agitur mandatu meo diligenter; “sed mira paucitas est,” Cic. Fam. 2, 11, 2; Caes. B. G. 3, 2, 3; Sall. C. 53, 4; Cic. Inv. 1, 22, 32; Quint. 5, 7, 23.
paucĭtas , ātis, f. paucus,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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