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1 alimentum
ălĭmentum, i, n. [alo], nourishment, nutriment; and concr., food, provisions, aliment (in the poets only in the plur.).I.In gen.:II.alimenta corporis,
Cic. Univ. 6:plus alimenti est in pane quam in ullo alio,
Cels. 2, 18; so id. 8, 1; Plin. 17, 13, 20:alimenta reponere in hiemem,
Quint. 2, 16, 16; Suet. Tib. 54; cf. Tac. A. 6, 23:alimenta petens,
Vulg. Gen. 41, 55:alimenta negare,
Ov. Tr 5, 8, 13:habentes alimenta et quibus tegamur,
Vulg. 1 Tim. 6, 8.—In the jurists:alimenta,
all things which pertain to the support of life, aliment, maintenance, support, Dig. 34, tit. 1, De alimentis, and 1. 6.— Poet. (very freq. in Ovid):picem et ceras, alimentaque cetera flammae,
Ov. M. 14, 532:concipit Iris aquas, alimentaque nubibus affert,
id. ib. 1, 271:lacrimaeque alimenta fuere,
tears were his food, id. ib. 10, 75 (cf.:fuerunt mihi lacrimae meae panes die ac nocte,
Vulg. Psa. 41, 4):ignis,
Ov. M. 8, 837. — Trop.:vitiorum,
Ov. M. 2, 769:furoris,
id. ib. 3, 479:addidit alimenta rumoribus,
gave new support to the rumors, Liv. 35, 23 fin.:alimentum famae,
Tac. H. 2, 96:alimentum virtutis honos,
Val. Max. 2, 6, 5.—Esp., for the Gr. tropheia or threptra, the reward or recompense due to parents from children for their rearing: quasi alimenta exspectarct a nobis (patria), Cic. Rep. 1, 4 Mos. (in Val. Fl. 6, 570, this is expressed by nutrimenta; in Dig. 50, 13, 1, § 14, by nutricia).
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