stips (as a gift): beneficium (as a good deed). To give alms, stipem spargere, largiri: to collect alms, stipem cogere colligere: to beg for alms, stipem emendicare ab aliquo: to live on alms. aliena misericordia vivere; mendicantem vivere (Plaut., by begging for alms); stipe precarid victitare (Ammian., 26, 10): to live by anybody’s alms, *ope alicujus sustentatum vivere: to hold out one’s hand for an alm, manum ad etipem porrigere (Sen.).