piper

pĭper, pĭpĕris, n., = peperi (Sanscr. pippali or pippalī, the same), pepper.

I.

Lit., Plin. 12, 7, 14, § 26 sq.; Cels. 2, 27:

et piper et quicquid chartis amicitur ineptis,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 270; Ov. A. A. 2, 417; Juv. 14, 293:

rugosum piper,

Pers. 5, 55:

sacrum piper, a term intimating that the miser is as sparing of it as if it were something sacred,

id. 6, 21.—

II.

Trop., of sharp, biting speech:

piper, non homo,

Petr. 44; Hier. Ep. 31, n. 2.