mendicus

mendīcus adj.

with sup, beggarly, needy, in want, indigent: ex mendicis fieri divites: solos sapientīs esse, si mendicissimi (sint), divites.—As substm., a beggar, mendicant, T., C.: mendici, i. e. the priests of Cybele, H.—Poor, paltry, sorry, pitiful: instrumentum.