I.very little, very few: “homines,” Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 19; cf. “in tmesi: per pol quam paucos reperias amatores,” id. Hec. 1, 1, 1: “patres,” Liv. 43, 11, 11: “si perpauca mutavisset,” Cic. Ac. 2, 43, 132: “dicere,” id. Leg. 1, 12, 34; cf.: “perpauca loquens,” Hor. S. 1, 4, 18: “gens perpauca,” Vulg. Ecclus. 48, 17.—Sup., Col. 3, 20, 5.
per-paucus , a, um, adj.,