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- MARTIALISにおける<金銭>
- 藤井 昇
- 西洋古典學研究 12, 74-86, 1964-03-31
- … waste money on costly food, clothes and other luxuries But Martial's scorn of wealth is not the distaste that the labouring poor feel towards those who enjoy their unearned incomes It is the scorn of a poor intellectual for the unlettered new rich His satirical epigrams on niggardliness were written in that spirit Poems treating sexual affairs in connexion with money are not confined to Martial "Money rules the sexual world" is, as it were, one of his favourite mottoes, and its living examples could be seen in the everyday life of corrupted Rome Woman, he …
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- grudgingly mean about spending or granting : begrudging. 2. : provided in meanly limited supply. — nig·gard·li·ness noun. — niggardly adverb. See niggardly defined for English-language learners » · See niggardly defined for kids » ...
- the quality or practice of being overly sparing with money <remembered for her legendary niggardliness, financier Hetty Green lived the life of a pauper but died with a net worth of over $100 million>. Synonyms cheapness, cheeseparing ...
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