pumilio

pūmĭlĭo (collat. form pūmĭlo, Stat. S. 1, 6, 57), ōnis, comm. [pumilus], a dwarf, pigmy:

necari a non armato pumilione,

Mart. 1, 43, 10:

scutum pumilionis erit,

id. 14, 213, 2.—Of women: parvula, pumilio (est) Charitôn mia, tota merum sal, Lucr. 4, 1162.—Prov.:

pumilio, licet in monte, non est magnus,

Sen. Ep. 76, 31.— Transf., of fowls, Col. 8, 2, 14; bantams, Plin. 10, 56, 77, § 156;

of plants,

id. 11, 49, 108, § 260; 12, 2, 6, § 13; 17, 22, 35, § 176.