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LNS

ancillula, ancillulae

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noun (f., 1^st declension)

doub. dim
a little serving-maid, a young female slave

Abbreviations

ancillula, ae, f. doub. dim. [id.], a little serving-maid, a young female slave. Lit., Plaut. Rud. prol. 74; Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 11; so id. Eun. 1, 2, 86; id. Phorm. 5, 5, 10 al.: nec servus nec ancillula, etc., Ov. R. Am. 639 al.

— Trop.: juris scientiam eloquentiae tamquam ancillulam pedissequamque adjunxisti, Cic. de Or. 1, 55 fin.: praesto esse virtutes ut ancillulas, id. Fin. 2, 21, 69.