Meaning of pauper | Babel Free

Definitions

1. poor
   declension-3, one-termination
2. Equivalent to 'poor': With no or few possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them

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Examples

“Illa vērō nōn est paupertās, sī laeta est; nōn quī parum habet, sed quī plūs cupit, pauper est.”

[Seneca has just quoted Epicurus regarding “cheerful” poverty:] But truly, it is not poverty if it is cheerful; it is not the one who has little, but the one who craves more, who is poor.

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