I. In gen., little, small (anteclass. and poet.): “paulo momento huc vel illuc impelli,” Ter. And. 1, 5, 31: “paulo sumptu,” id. Ad. 5, 4, 22: “pauper a paulo lare,” Varr. L. L. 5, § 92 Müll.: paula trua, Titin. ap. Non. 19, 19.—
(β).
Subst.: pau-lum , i, n., a little, a trifle: de paulo paululum hoc tibi dabo, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 31: “quasi vero paulum intersiet,” Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 18: “an paulum hoc esse tibi videtur?” id. ib. 5, 2, 18; “5, 8, 38: agelli paulum,” id. Ad. 5, 8, 26: “supplicī,” id. And. 5, 3, 32; so, “negotī,” id. Heaut. 3, 1, 92: “lucri,” id. ib. 4, 4, 25: “paulum huic Cottae tribuit partium,” allotted a small part of his defence, Cic. de Or. 1, 53, 229: “nil Aut paulum abstulerat,” Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 33: “ubi paulum nescio quid superest,” Juv. 11, 47: post paulum, v. infra. —
II. Adverb. uses.
A. Abl.: paulo , by a little, a little, somewhat.
1. With comp.: “paulo prius,” Plaut. Men. 4, 3, 7: “liberius paulo,” Cic. Or. 24, 82: “civis haud paulo melior, quam, etc.,” id. Att. 2, 12, 3: “paulo secus,” id. de Or. 3, 30, 119: “haud paulo plus,” id. Fam. 7, 1, 3: “paulo minus consideratus,” id. Quint. 3, 11: “paulo magis affabre factus,” Cic. Verr. 1, 5, 14: “verbis paulo magis priscis uti,” id. Brut. 21, 82: “paulo longius processerant,” Caes. B. G. 2, 20: “maturius paulo,” id. ib. 1, 54: “paulo minus quatuordecim annos,” a little under, Suet. Ner. 40: “paulo minus, quam privatum egit,” id. Tib. 26: “paulo minus octogesimo aetatis anno decessit,” Plin. Ep. 7, 24, 1: “paulo minus quinque millia,” id. Pan. 28, 4.—
2. Esp. with ante, post: “quae paulo ante praecepta dedimus,” Cic. Part. 39, 137: “paulo ante,” Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 3, § 6; Juv. 6, 227; 9, 114: “post paulo,” just after, a little after, Sall. C. 18, 3; Liv. 22, 60. —
3. With words and expressions implying superiority or comparison: “magnitudine paulo antecedunt,” Caes. B. G. 6, 26: “verba paulo nimium redundantia,” Cic. de Or. 2, 21, 88: “histrio si paulo se movit extra numerum,” id. Par. 3, 2, 26: “paulo ultra eum locum,” Caes. B. C. 3, 66: “paulo mox,” Plin. 18, 28, 68, § 268.—
4. Without comparison (rare), a little, somewhat: “paulo qui est homo tolerabilis,” Ter. Heaut. 1, 2, 31: “ut non solum gloriosis consiliis utamur, sed etiam paulo salubribus,” Cic. Att. 8, 12, 5: “aut nihil aut paulo cui tum concedere digna, Lux mea, etc.,” Cat. 68, 131.—Hence,
B. Acc.: paulum , a little, somewhat: “paulum supra eum locum,” Caes. B. G. 6, 9: “epistolae me paulum recreant,” Cic. Att. 9, 6, 5: “paulum differre,” id. Agr. 2, 31, 85: “requiescere,” id. de Or. 1, 62, 265: “commorari,” id. Rosc. Com. 10, 28: scaphae paulum progressae, Sall. ap. Gell. 10, 26, 10 (Hist. 1, 60 Dietsch): “paulum aspectu conterritus haesit,” Verg. A. 3, 597.—
(β).
With adv. of time or place: “post paulum,” a little later, after a short time, Caes. B. G. 7, 50; Quint. 9, 4, 19; 2, 17, 25; 11, 3, 148: “ultra paulum,” id. 11, 3, 21; cf.: “infra jugulum,” Suet. Caes. 82; cf. also: paulum praelabitur ante, Cic. poët. N. D. 2, 43, 111.—
