unciatim
From LSJ
ἤ με φίλει καθαρὸν θέμενος νόον, ἤ μ' ἀποειπών ἐχθαιρ' ἀμφαδίην νεῖκος ἀειράμενος → either love me with a pure heart, or reject and hate me, and openly pick a fight
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
uncĭātim: adv. id.,
I by twelfths, by ounces. *
I Lit.: (axungia) datur et phthisicis unciatim, cum vini veteris hemina decocta, donec tres unciae e toto restent, Plin. 28, 9, 37, § 139.—*
II Transf., by a little at a time, little by little: quod ille unciatim vix de demenso suo ... comparsit miser, Ter. Phorm. 1, 1, 9.
