ancillula

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

ancillŭla, ae, f. doub. dim. [ancilla], a little serving-maid, a young female slave.

I Lit., Plaut. Rud. prol. 74; Ter. Heaut. 252; so id. Eun. 166; id. Phorm. 838 al.: nec servus nec ancillula, etc., Ov. R. Am. 639 al.—

II Trop.: juris scientiam eloquentiae tamquam ancillulam pedissequamque adjunxisti, Cic. de Or. 1, 55 fin. : praesto esse virtutes ut ancillulas, id. Fin. 2, 21, 69.

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