modicum

modicum is a Latin form of modicus, meaning “moderate, small, ordinary”. It is the accusative singular neuter adjective.

Found 59 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum 2.62: Contineo me ab exemplis. Graecis hoc modicum est: Leonidas, Epaminondas, tres aliqui aut quattuor; ego si nostros colligere coepero, perficiam illud quide …

Apuleius, Metamorphoses 6.16: … eros et ipsius Orci ferales penates te derige. Tunc conferens pyxidem Proserpinae, Petit de te Venus, dicito, Modicum de tua mittas ei formositate, vel ad unam saltem dieculam sufficiens: nam quod habuit dum filium curat aegrot …

All forms of modicus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.