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|lshtext=<b>frustum</b>: i, n.,<br /><b>I</b> a [[piece]], [[bit]] (syn.: [[fragmentum]], [[segmentum]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit., of [[food]] ([[class]].): [[frusto]] [[panis]] conduci potest, vel uti taceat, vel uti loquatur, [[Cato]] ap. Gell. 1, 15, 10: [[necesse]] est, [[offa]] objecta cadere [[frustum]] ex pulli [[ore]] cum pascitur, Cic. Div. 1, 15, 27: esculenta, id. Phil. 2, 25 fin. (also ap. Quint. 9, 4, 44): viscera [[pars]] in frusta secant, verubusque trementia figunt, Verg. A. 1, 212: lardi semesa frusta, Hor. S. 2, 6, 85: sunt qui frustis et pomis viduas venentur avaras, id. Ep. 1, 1, 78: capreae, Juv. 11, 142: nudum et frusta rogantem, scraps, id. 3, 210: solidae frusta farinae, lumps, id. 5, 68; cf. 14, 128.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., in gen., a [[piece]] as a [[small]] [[part]] of a [[whole]] ([[very]] [[rare]]; not in Cic.): [[unde]] soluta [[fere]] [[oratio]], et e singulis non membris sed frustis collata, [[structura]] caret, Quint. 8, 5, 27; so (opp. membra), id. 4, 5, 25; cf.: philosophiam in partes, non in frusta dividam, Sen. Ep. 89: frusta pannorum, rags, Amm. 15, 12, 2.—Comically: [[frustum]] pueri, [[you]] [[bit]] of a [[boy]]! Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 68.
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{{Gaffiot
|gf=<b>frustum</b>,¹¹ ī, n., morceau [d’un aliment], bouchée : Cic. Div. 1, 27 ; Phil. 2, 63 || [fig.] fragment, morceau : Sen. Ep. 89, 2 ; Quint. 8, 5, 27 || [[frustum]] pueri Pl. Pers. 848, bout d’homme.
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