fragmentum (portion broken off; poetically, fragmen: there is no classical authority for the use of this word for a fragment of anything that is not material; hence, though fragmenta codicum manuscriptorum, etc., would be correct for the actual parchment, etc., fragmenta orationis, libri, scriptoris alicujus, etc. would not: better reliquiae, pars non integra, quae restat [for partes non integrae quae restant] ex libro, qui periit, etc.). Fragments of a play of Menander’s, trunca quaedam ex Menandro (Gell., 2, 23, extr.). [Matthiae and Kraft recommend the retention of fragmentum as technical term].