quisquilia

quisquĭlĭae, ārum, f. ( neutr. collat. form quisquĭlĭa, ōrum, Petr. 75; cf.: quisquilia, skubala, Gloss. Philox.) [prob. from quisque, all sorts of things, odds and ends].

I.

Lit., the waste or refuse of any thing, the droppings of trees, sweepings, offscourings, rubbish, filth:

quisquiliae dici putantur quicquid ex arboribus minutis surculorum foliorumve cadit,

Fest. p. 257 Müll.; cf.:

quisquiliae, stipulae immixta esurculis et foliis aridis: sunt autem purgamenta terrarum,

Isid. Orig. 17, 6; and: quisquiliae, skubala, phruganôn chaitai, peripsêmata, Gloss. Philox.:

quisquilias, volantes, venti spolia, memoras, Caecil. ap. Fest. l. l.: quisquiliae frumenti,

Vulg. Amos, 8, 6:

nugas marinas et quisquilias litorales quaerere,

App. Mag. p. 296, 36. —

II.

Transf., of vile or worthless persons, beasts, or things, refuse, outcast, riffraff, dregs, rubbish, trash:

omitto Numerium, Serranum, Aelium, quisquilias seditionis Clodianae,

Cic. Sest. 43, 94; id. Att. 1, 16, 6: homo non, quisquiliae, Nov. ap. Fest. p. 257 Müll.—

Of worthless fish,

App. M. 1, p. 113, 28:

corcillum est, quod homines facit: cetera quisquilia omnia,

are trifles, Petr. 75.