scarce
scarce
adj.
P. and V. σπά̆νιος.
Deficient: P. and V. ἐνδεής, P. ἐλλιπής.
adj.
P. and V. σπά̆νιος.
Deficient: P. and V. ἐνδεής, P. ἐλλιπής.
scarce
adv.
See scarcely.
adv.
See scarcely.
SCARCE
rarus (found only seldom or in small quantities; happening but seldom etc.): angustus (e.g. res frumentaria): tenuis (opposed to amplus copiosus). (The words are found in this connection and order.) tenuis et exiguus. Vid: also RARE.
rarus (found only seldom or in small quantities; happening but seldom etc.): angustus (e.g. res frumentaria): tenuis (opposed to amplus copiosus). (The words are found in this connection and order.) tenuis et exiguus. Vid: also RARE.
scarce (adj.): rārus: to prefer s. things to common, anteponere rara vulgaribus, Cic. Top. 18, 69: faithfulness in friendships is rare, r. in amicitiis fides, Plin. Ep. 6, 10: very s., perrārus, Liv.: v. RARE , UNCOMMON . Phr.: make yourselves s., hinc vos amolimini, Ter. Andr. 4, 2, 24.
scarce, scarcely:
I. Of completeness: barely:
1. vix: it was s. right, v. erat rectum, Cic. Att. 6, 9, ad fin.: s. believing my senses, v. mi ipse credens, Cat. 31, 5: reduced to s. 500, v. ad D. reducti, Caes. B. G. 2, 28: s. 30 days, v.dumXXX. dies, Cic. Fam. 12, 4, 2: s. or not at all, v. aut omnino non, id. Att. 3, 33, 2: v. aut nullo modo, id. N. D. 2, 7, 20. The foll. also occur: s., ... much less, vix ... nedum, id. Fam. 16, 8: Liv. 24, 4: s., ... yet, v. ... sed tamen, Cic. Pis. 12, 27. Stronger forms: v. saltem, Quint. 6, 4, 15: vix, vixque, Albinov. 1, 167. S. any one, v. ullus, Liv. 24, 5, ad init.: also in pl., v. pauci, Cic. de Or. 1, 2, 7: but these phrr. are more usu. with fere nemo f., id. Am. 1, 5: non f. quisquam, id. Sest. 23, 51: non ullus f., Caes. B. G. 5, 33: s. any but the names of the kings, tantum f. regum nomina, Cic. Rep. 2, 18: with s. any harbours, prope nullis portibus, Caes. B. G. 3, 12, ad fin.
2. aegrē (with difficulty and effort, opp. to facile): they s. refrain from attacking the camp, a. abstinent quin castra oppugnent, Liv. 2, 45: Cic. Sen. 20, 72. Join: vix aegreque, Pl. Poen. 1, 2, 27: vix et aegre, Flor. 2, 10. Phr.: s. alive, male vivus, Ov. A. A. 2, 660 to have s. enough corn for 30 days, frumentum exigue dierum xxx. habere, Caes. B. G. 7, 71: also expr. by haud, non facile, Cic. Brut. 67, 238: Rep. 1, 3, ad fin.
II. Of time: hardly:
1. vix (strengthened freq. by dum: v. preced.): the foll. clause is introduced most freq. by quum: poet. also by et or que, or without connecting word: he had s. said this, when ..., v. ea fatus erat, quum ..., Virg. Aen. 6, 190: see also ib. 5, 857; 8, 520: I had s. said half when he caught my meaning, v.dum dimidium dixeram, intellexerat, Ter. Ph. 4, 2, 4. Strengthened by other advs.: I have s. read the letter, v. tandem legi litteras, Cic. Fam. 3, 9, init.: he had s. ceased, v. bene desierat, Ov. M. 2, 47.
2. expr. by tantum quo: I had s. arrived when the letter was handed to me, t. q. veneram quum litterae redditae sunt, Cic. Fam. 7, 23, init.: v.JUST .
I. Of completeness: barely:
1. vix: it was s. right, v. erat rectum, Cic. Att. 6, 9, ad fin.: s. believing my senses, v. mi ipse credens, Cat. 31, 5: reduced to s. 500, v. ad D. reducti, Caes. B. G. 2, 28: s. 30 days, v.dum
2. aegrē (with difficulty and effort, opp. to facile): they s. refrain from attacking the camp, a. abstinent quin castra oppugnent, Liv. 2, 45: Cic. Sen. 20, 72. Join: vix aegreque, Pl. Poen. 1, 2, 27: vix et aegre, Flor. 2, 10. Phr.: s. alive, male vivus, Ov. A. A. 2, 660 to have s. enough corn for 30 days, frumentum exigue dierum xxx. habere, Caes. B. G. 7, 71: also expr. by haud, non facile, Cic. Brut. 67, 238: Rep. 1, 3, ad fin.
II. Of time: hardly:
1. vix (strengthened freq. by dum: v. preced.): the foll. clause is introduced most freq. by quum: poet. also by et or que, or without connecting word: he had s. said this, when ..., v. ea fatus erat, quum ..., Virg. Aen. 6, 190: see also ib. 5, 857; 8, 520: I had s. said half when he caught my meaning, v.dum dimidium dixeram, intellexerat, Ter. Ph. 4, 2, 4. Strengthened by other advs.: I have s. read the letter, v. tandem legi litteras, Cic. Fam. 3, 9, init.: he had s. ceased, v. bene desierat, Ov. M. 2, 47.
2. expr. by tantum quo: I had s. arrived when the letter was handed to me, t. q. veneram quum litterae redditae sunt, Cic. Fam. 7, 23, init.: v.