vinaceo

Updated: May 6, 2025

QUAE ... PROCREET: 'able to generate'. TANTULO: strictly elliptic, implying quantulum re vera est. In such uses tantus and tantulus differ slightly from magnus and parvus; they are more emphatic. ACINI VINACEO: 'a grape-stone'. MINUTISSIMIS: used here for minimis.

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Cato Maior de Senectute with Introduction and Notes