parumper

părumper, adv., with ref. to time, for a little while, for a short time, a while, a moment: parumper significat paulisper, quasi perparvum, i. e. valde parvum;

refertur autem ad tempus,

Fest. p. 221 Müll. (class.).

I.

Lit.:

tace parumper,

Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 78:

mane dum parumper,

id. Bacch. 4, 6, 24; cf. Ter. And. 4, 2, 31; Liv. 4, 32:

haec cum Crassus dixisset, parumper et ipse conticuit et ceteris silentium fuit,

Cic. de Or. 3, 35, 143:

discedo parumper a somniis, ad quae mox revertar,

id. Div. 1, 23, 47:

abduco parumper animum a molestiis,

id. Att. 9, 4, 3; id. Lael. 1, 5:

dent operam parumper,

id. Rep. 1, 7, 12; Quint. 6, 2, 34; 2, 4, 1:

pulsusque parumper Corde dolor tristi,

a while, Verg. A. 6, 382:

oro parumper Attendas,

Juv. 10, 250.—Defined by dum:

dum exeo, parumper opperire hic,

Ter. And. 4, 2, 31; Plaut. Am. 2, 8, 7:

cunctatus parumper, dum, etc.,

Liv. 4, 32, 10.—

II.

Transf., in a short time, quickly ( poet. ): hinc campos celeri passu permensa parumper Coicit in silvam sese, Enn. ap. Non. 378, 20 (Ann. v. 74 Vahl.): cito et velociter, Non. (Ann. v. 74 Vahl.); Enn. ap. Non. l. l.;

378, 17: divi, hoc audite parumper,

id. ib. 150, 7 (Ann. v. 214 Vahl.); id. ap. Fest. s. v. solum, p. 301 Müll.