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μικρολόγος

μικρολόγος, reckoning trifles

μικρο-λόγος or σμικρ-, ον,
  • counting trifles, careful about trifles; and so,
      • 1 caring about petty expenses, penurious, D. 59.36, Thphr. Char. 10.1, Hyp. Fr. 255, etc.; σὺ δὲ μ. ἄρʼ οὐ θέλων καινὰς πρίασθαι (sc. ἐμβάδας) Men. 109.4.
      • 2 cavilling about trifles, captious, μ. καὶ μεμψίμοιρος Isoc. 12.8; μ. καὶ μικρολύπους Plu. Superst. 2.171b; petty, Pl. Smp. 210d. Adv. -γως Plu. QConv. 2.730b.

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