stips: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>stips</b>: īpis, v. [[stipes]]<br /><b>I</b> init.<br /><b>stips</b>: stĭpis (nom. does not [[occur]], [[although]] [[stips]] is [[assumed]] by Varr. L. L. 5, § 182 Müll.; [[Charis]]. 85 P.; cf. Gloss. [[stips]], [[ἔρανος]]>), f. kindr. [[with]] [[stipo]], and [[therefore]], orig., [[small]] [[coin]] in heaps; [[hence]], in partic.,<br /><b>I</b> a [[gift]], [[donation]], [[alms]], [[contribution]], given in [[small]] [[coin]]: [[etiam]] [[nunc]] dis cum thesauris asses dant, stipem dicunt, Varr. L. L. 5, § 182 Müll.: stipem esse nummum signatum testimonio est, [[quod]] datur in [[stipendium]] militi et cum spondetur [[pecunia]], [[quod]] stipulari dicitur, Fest. pp. 296 and 297 Müll.; cf.: [[stipendium]] a stipe appellatum est, [[quod]] per [[stipes]], id est modica [[aera]] colligatur, Dig. 50, 16, 27: stipem Apollini conferre, Liv. 25, 12; so of [[religious]] donations, id. 27, 37; 5, 25; Cic. Leg. 2, 9, 21; 2, 16, 40; Suet. Aug. 57: [[quis]] [[beneficium]] dicat quadram [[panis]] aut stipem aeris abjecti, Sen. Ben. 4, 29, 2; so of [[alms]], id. Vit. Beat. 25; Dig. 47, 22, 1; cf. Liv. 38, 45; Suet. Aug. 91 fin.: ad captandas [[stipes]], id. Calig. 42; Ov. F. 1, 189: pastiones non minimam colono stipem conferunt, [[bring]] in no [[small]] [[profit]], Col. 8, 1, 2: suburbanum hortum exiguā colere stipe, Curt. 4, 1, 19: parvā [[cur]] stipe quaerat [[opes]], Ov. F. 4, 350; cf. Quint. 1, 12, 18: e prostitutis [[ancilla]] mercenariae stipis, [[living]] by the wages of [[prostitution]], Plin. 10, 63, 83, § 172: nodosam exsolvite stipem, [[penalty]], Val. Max. 2, 9, 1.