per-paucus, a, um, adj.,
very little , very few : homines, Ter. Eun. 409; cf. in tmesi: per pol quam paucos reperias amatores, id. Hec. 58: patres, Liv. 43, 11, 11: si perpauca mutavisset, Cic. Ac. 2 ( Luc. ), 43, 132: dicere, id. Leg. 1, 12, 34; cf.: perpauca loquens, Hor. S. 1, 4, 18: gens perpauca, Vulg. Ecclus. 48, 17.— Sup. , Col. 3, 20, 5.