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stĭpŭla, ae, f. dim. [stipes], a stalk, stem, blade, halm; of grain (syn. culmus): frumenta in viridi stipulā lactentia turgent, Verg. G. 1, 315; Plin. 14, 16, 19, § 101; 17, 27, 47, § 260; 18, 18, 47, § 169: e segete ad spicilegium stipulam relinquere, Varr. L. L. 7, § 109 Müll.
Of the stalks of grain left behind in reaping, straw, stubble, Varr. R. R. 1, 53; Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 62; Verg. G. 1, 321; Ov. Am. 1, 8, 90; id. F. 4, 781: in stipulā placidi carpebat munera somni, id. ib. 3, 185; cf. Dig. 50, 16, 30.
Of hay, Varr. R. R. 1, 49, 1.
Of a reed, Verg. E. 3, 27; Plin. 37, 10, 67, § 182.
Of bean-stalks, Ov. F. 4, 725.
Prov.: flammaque de stipulā nostra brevisque fuit, of a quickly extinguished fire, Ov. Tr. 5, 8, 20: postmodo de stipulā magnus acervus erit, id. Am. 1, 8, 90.
stĭpŭlo, āre, 1, v. a. (collat. form of stipulor), to exact, bargain for, stipulate, Symm. Ep. 1, 11: ἐπερωτῶ, stipulo, Gloss.; mostly pass.: Suetonius autem passivo protulit in IIII. Pratorum, Laetoria, quae vetat minorem annis viginti quinque stipulari (ἐπερωτᾶσθαι), Prisc. 8, 4, 21, p. 794 P.; cf. id. 18, 19, 149, p. 1164 ib.
Part. pass.: pecunia stipulata (for promissa), Cic. Rosc. Com. 5, 14.
stĭpŭlus, a, um, adj. (old Lat.), firm: stipulum apud veteres firmum appellabatur, Just. Inst. 3, 15; Paul. Sent. 5, 7, § 1.