kill the fatted beast

săgīna, ae, f. [kindr. with sattô, to stuff full, to cram; v. sagmen], a stuffing, cramming, fattening, feeding, feasting.

Lit.

In abstr. (class.):

anserum,

Varr. R. R. 3, 10, 1; Col. 6, 27, 9; 8, 14, 11:

gallinarum,

Plin. 10, 50, 71, § 140:

cochlearum,

id. 9, 56, 82, § 174: vaccarum. Vulg. Ecclus. 38, 27:

dies noctesque estur, Bibitur, neque quisquam parsimoniam adhibet: sagina plane est,

Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 79:

in saginam se conicere,

id. Trin. 3, 2, 96: qui multitudinem illam non auctoritate sed sagina tenebat, * Cic. Fl. 7, 17; cf. Tac. H. 2, 71.—

In concr.

Food, nourishment (postAug.).

Lit.:

gladiatoria sagina,

Tac. H. 2, 88; cf.

, of gladiators' food,

Prop. 4 (5), 8, 25:

temulentus et sagina gravis,

Tac. H. 1, 62:

stomachum laxare saginae,

Juv. 4, 67:

sagina viva,

i. e. small fish with which larger ones were fed, Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 7; cf. Plin. 9, 6, 5, § 14:

ad saginam idonea,

Col. 8, 9, 4:

ferarum,

Suet. Calig. 27:

minuere saginam,

Nemes. Cyn. 166:

ad saginam pristinam revocare,

to natural food, Veg. 2, 45, 3:

bestiarum,

App. M. p. 148, 27.—

Transf.:

herbae viridis coma dulciore saginā roris aut fluminis,

rich nourishment, Pall. 7, 3 Mai:

quemadmodum forensibus certaminibus exercitatos et quasi militantes reficit ac reparat haec velut sagina dicendi,

nourishment of oratory, Quint. 10, 5, 17.—

A fatted animal:

este, effercite vos, saginam caedite,

kill the fatted beast, Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 62.—

Meton., fatness produced by much eating, corpulence (postAug.):

saginam corporis ex nimiā luxuriā contraxit,

Just. 21, 2, 1:

sagina ventris non homini sed beluae similis,

id. 38, 8, 9:

qui colorem fuco et verum robur inani saginā mentiuntur,

Quint. 2, 15, 25:

nimio tendis mole saginam,

Aus. Ephem. 1, 8:

ursam quae ceteris saginā corporis praevalebat,

App. M. 4, p. 149, 7.