I.by little and little, by degrees, gradually (syn. sensim).
I. Lit.: “labefacto paulatim,” Plaut. Merc. 2, 3, 68: “paulatim Germanos consuescere Rhenum transire,” Caes. B. G. 1, 33: “collis leviter fastigatus paulatim ad planitiem redibat,” id. ib. 2, 8; Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 17, 1: “ubi paulatim licentia crevit,” Sall. C. 51, 30; Verg. E. 4, 28: “paulatim adnabam terrae,” id. A. 6, 358: “calere,” Juv. 1, 83: “aliquem accipere,” id. 2, 84: “vitia exuere,” id. 13, 188.—
II. In partic., of the succession of parts one after the other, a few or a little at a time: “paulatim ex castris discedere coeperunt, non omnes simul, sed subinde pauci,” Caes. B. G. 4, 30; cf. Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 45; Dig. 49, 14, 47.—With gen.: “aquae paulatim addito,” add water a little at a time, Cato, R. R. 74.
