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ā̆grestis, e, adj. [id.].

Lit., pertaining to land, fields, or the country, country, rural, rustic, wild, agrios:

Musa,

Lucr. 5, 1397:

te in Arpinati videbimus et hospitio agresti accipiemus,

Cic. Att. 2, 16 fin.:

vestitus,

Nep. Pel. 2, 5:

falx,

Tib. 2, 5, 28 al.:

poma,

Verg. A. 7, 111:

cum lactucis agrestibus,

Vulg. Exod. 12, 8:

ligna non sunt pomifera, sed agrestia,

ib. Deut. 20, 20:

herbas agrestes,

ib. 4 Reg. 4, 39.— Subst.: ā̆grestis, is ( gen. plur. agrestūm, Ov. M. 14, 635), a countryman, rustic, farmer, peasant, Lucr. 5, 1382:

non est haec oratio habenda aut cum imperitā multitudine aut in aliquo conventu agrestium,

Cic. Mur. 29:

collectos armat agrestes,

Verg. A. 9, 11:

Fictilia antiquus primum sibi fecit agrestis Pocula,

Tib. 1, 1, 39:

facinus admissum a quodam agresti,

Tac. A. 4, 45:

inopes agrestes,

id. H. 2, 13; 4, 50.—

Transf., and in mal. part.

Rustic, in opp. to the refined citizen ( urbanus, as agrios is opp. to asteios), boorish, clownish, rude, uncultivated, coarse, wild, savage, barbarous, of persons and things:

sunt quidam vultu motuque corporis vasti atque agrestes,

Cic. de Or. 1, 25, 115:

O rem dignam, in quā non modo docti, verum etiam agrestes erubescant,

id. Leg. 1, 14, 41:

aborigines, genus hominum agreste,

Sall. C. 6, 1:

Ego ille agrestis, saevos, tristis, parcus, truculentus, tenax Duxi uxorem,

Ter. Ad. 5, 4, 12:

quis nostrūm tam animo agresti ac duro fuit, ut, etc.,

Cic. Arch. 8:

dominus agrestis et furiosus,

id. Sen. 14:

exculto animo nihil agreste, nihil inhumanum est,

id. Att. 13, 45; so Ov. M. 11, 767:

rustica vox et agrestis,

Cic. de Or. 2, 11; 2, 3. —Hence, agrestiores Musae, ruder, of the language of the bar, in opp. to more refined and polished eloquence, Cic. Or. 3, 11.—

Wild, brutish:

vultus,

Ov. M. 9, 96:

agrestem detraxit ab ore figuram Juppiter (of Io),

Prop. 3, 31, 13.— Comp., v. above.—

* Sup. agrestissimus, Cassiod. Ep. 7, 4.—

* Adv. comp. neutr. agrestius, Spart. Hadr. 3.

canto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a. [cano], freq. in form, but mostly agrees in meaning with cano.

Neutr., to produce melodious sounds (by the voice or an instrument), to sound, sing, play (class. in prose and poetry; rare in Cic.).

Of men:

Pamphilam Cantatum provocemus,

Ter. Eun. 3, 1, 53:

saltare et cantare,

Cic. Cat. 2, 10, 23:

neque enim vocum suavitate videntur aut novitate quădam cantandi revocare eos solitae (sirenes),

id. Fin. 5, 18, 49:

Arcades ambo Et cantare pares,

Verg. E. 7, 5; 10, 32:

cantando victus,

id. ib. 3, 21; Tib. 2, 1, 66:

adimam cantare severis,

Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 9:

ut (cantores) numquam inducant animum cantare rogati,

id. S. 1, 3, 2; Suet. Tit. 3: non est Cantandum, there is no occasion for singing, i. e. for imagination, fiction, Juv. 4, 35.—Of an actor:

cantante eo (Nerone) ne necessariă quidem causă excedere theatro licitum erat,

Suet. Ner. 23; 20; id. Vesp. 4 al.; cf.

under II. B. 2.: conducta veni, ut fidibus cantarem seni,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 64:

structis avenis,

Ov. M. 1, 677:

ad chordarum sonum,

Nep. Epam. 2, 1.—Less freq. of instrumental music, and only with abl. of the instrument (cf. cano):

tibiis,

Nep. Epam. 2, 1; id. ib. praef. § 1; Vulg. Luc. 7, 32:

lituo, tubă,

Gell. 20, 2, 2:

calamo,

Sen. Ben. 4, 6, 5: ad manum histrioni, in comedy, to sing and play while the actor accompanies the song with gestures or dancing, Liv. 7, 2, 10; cf. Val. Max. 2, 4, 4.— Pass. impers.:

in caelo cantatur et psallitur,

Arn. 3, 21.—Prov.:

surdo,

Prop. 4 (5), 8, 47, and ad surdas aures, Ov. Am. 3, 7, 61, to preach to deaf ears; cf. cano, II. B.—

Of the singing pronunciation of an orator, to declaim in a singing tone, to sing, drawl: si cantas, male cantas, si legis, cantas, C. Caesar ap. Quint. 1, 8, 2; 11, 1, 56; 11, 3, 57; 11, 3, 58; 11, 3, 59; 11, 3, 60; cf. Juv. 10, 178.—Hence, to recite, declaim:

quaecumque sedens modo legerat, haec eadem... cantabit versibus isdem,

Juv. 7, 153.—

Of birds and fowls:

prius quam galli cantent,

crow, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 96; so,

deos gallis signum dedisse cantandi,

Cic. Div. 2, 26, 57:

cantantes aves,

Prop. 4 (5), 9, 30.—

Transf., of instruments, to sound, resound:

pastoris bucina cantat,

Prop. 4 (5), 10, 30:

cantabat fanis, cantabat tibia ludis,

Ov. F. 6, 659 sq. —

Act., to make some person or thing the subject of one ' s singing, playing, or song (cf. cano, II.).

With the song itself, carmen, versus, etc., as object, to sing, play, recite:

carmina non prius Audita canto,

Hor. C. 3, 1, 4:

rustica verba,

Tib. 2, 1, 52:

Hymen cantatus,

Ov. H. 12, 137; cf.:

Hymenaeum qui cantent,

Ter. Ad. 5, 7, 7:

obscena,

Ov. F. 3, 676.—

With particular persons or things, the subjects of song, as objects, to sing, to celebrate or praise in song, sing of, write poetry upon, etc.:

celebrem deum,

Tib. 2, 1, 83:

absentem amicam,

Hor. S. 1, 5, 15:

rivos,

id. C. 2, 19, 11:

convivia, proelia virginum,

id. ib. 1, 6, 19:

Augusti tropaea,

id. ib. 2, 9, 19:

Pythia (sc. certamina),

id. A. P. 414:

cantari dignus,

Verg. E. 5, 54:

per totum cantabimur orbem,

Ov. Am. 1, 3, 25; 2, 17, 33; cf.:

illa meis multum cantata libellis,

Mart. 9, 50, 1:

cantatus Achilles,

Ov. Am. 2, 1, 29:

laudes tuas,

id. F. 2, 658. —Esp.,

Of an actor, to represent a part, to act (cf. supra, I. A.):

cantavit (Nero) Orestem matricidam, Oedipodem excaecatum, etc.,

Suet. Ner. 21:

Nioben,

id. ib. 21:

tragoedias,

id. ib. 21:

fabulam,

id. ib. 46 fin.:

epinicia,

id. ib. 43 fin. —

Hence, because the oracles were of old uttered in verse, of any mysterious, prophetic, or warning utterance, to predict, warn, point out, indicate, make known, say:

vera cantas? vana vellem,

Plaut. Most. 4, 2, 64. —Of inanimate things:

urna haec litterata est: ab se cantat cuja sit,

Plaut. Rud. 2, 5, 21:

civi inmoeni scin quid cantari solet?

id. Trin. 2, 2, 69; id. Bacch. 4, 9, 61.—

To bring something repeatedly to recollection, to reiterate, harp upon, forewarn of or against:

haec dies noctes canto, ut caveas,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 12:

harum mores,

Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 19:

nam, ut scis, jam pridem istum canto Caesarem,

Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 11 (13), 1:

quid fati provida cantet avis,

Tib. 2, 5, 12:

quae me juvene utique cantare solebant,

Quint. 8, 3, 76.—

In the lang. of religion, as v. n. or a., to use enchantments, charms, incantations, to enchant, to charm, Cato, R. R. 160, 1; Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 27:

frigidus in pratis cantando rumpitur anguis,

Verg. E. 8, 71:

cantata Luna,

exorcised by magic, Prop. 4 (5), 5, 13:

falx,

Ov. H. 6, 84:

herbae,

id. M. 7, 98:

ignis,

Sil. 1, 430:

tum quoque cantato densetur carmine caelum,

an incantation, Ov. M. 14, 369.—

To call forth, produce by charms:

et chelydris cantare soporem,

Sil. 8, 498:

cantata umbra,

Luc. 6, 767.

Căto, ōnis, m. [1. catus], a cognomen of several celebrated Romans in the gens Porcia, Valeria, Vettia al.

M. Porcius Cato the elder, distinguished as a rigid judge of morals; hence with the appel. Censorius;

whose most celebrated works were the Origines and De Re Rustica,

Cic. de Or. 3, 33, 135; Liv. 31, 1 sqq.; Plin. 7, 27, 28, § 100; 7, 30, 31, § 112; cf., concerning him, Bernhardy, Röm. Litt. p. 521 sq.; 650; Bähr, Lit. Gesch. p. 515; 258; 354 al.;

Ellendt, Cic. Brut. p. xix.-xxv.—As appel. of a severe judge,

Mart. 1, prooem. fin.; Phaedr. 4, 7, 21.—Hence,

Cătōnĭānus, a, um, adj., of Cato:

familia,

Cic. Q. Fr. 4, 6, 5:

aetas,

Sen. Tranq. 7, 5:

illa (i. e. praecepta),

id. Ep. 94, 27:

lingua,

i. e. of high morality, Mart. 9, 27, 14.—

His descendant, M. Porcius Cato the younger, the enemy of Cœsar, who committed suicide after the battle of Pharsalia, at Utica; hence with the appel. Uticensis.—

Cătōnīni, ōrum, m., the adherents or friends of Cato, Cic. Fam. 7, 25, 1; cf. catonium.—Concerning both, and the Porcian family in gen., v. Gell. 13, 20 Hertz, p. 19 Bip.—On account of their serious and austere character, serious, or gloomy, morose men are called Catones, Sen. Ep. 120, 19; cf. Juv. 2, 40; Phaedr. 4, 7, 21; Petr. 132.—

Valerius Cato, a celebrated grammarian of Gaul, and poet of the time of Sulla, Cat. 56; Ov. Tr. 2, 436; Suet. Gram. 2; 4; 11.—

Dionysius Cato, author of the Disticha de moribus, prob. about the time of Constantine; v. the Disticha, with the Sententiae of Syrus, at the end of the Fabulae of Phaedrus, Bip.

cŏlŭmella (in MSS. often cŏlum-nella), ae, f. dim. [columna, columen], a small column, a pillar, Cato, R. R. 20, 1; 22, 2; Cic. Leg. 2, 26, 66; id. Tusc. 5, 23, 65; Caes. B. C. 2, 10.—

The foot or pedestal of a catapult, Vitr. 10, 15.—

Trop., a pillar, support, prop (cf. columen), Lucil. ap. Don. Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 57.

Cŏlŭmella, ae, m., a Roman cognomen in the gens Junia; so,

M. Junius Moderatus Columella, of Hispania Bœtica, uncle of the following. —

L. Junius Moderatus Columella, a well-known writer on husbandry, in the first century of the Christian era. He was of Gades, and a companion of Seneca and Celsus; his writings, De Re Rustica and De Arboribus, are yet extant; v. Schneid. Scriptt. Rei Rust. II. 2 praef.; Col. 7, 2, 4; 7, 10, 185; Plin. 8, 41, 63, § 153; 17, 9, 6, §§ 51 and 52; Pall. 1, 19, 3.

cŏlŭmella (in MSS. often cŏlum-nella), ae, f. dim. [columna, columen], a small column, a pillar, Cato, R. R. 20, 1; 22, 2; Cic. Leg. 2, 26, 66; id. Tusc. 5, 23, 65; Caes. B. C. 2, 10.—

The foot or pedestal of a catapult, Vitr. 10, 15.—

Trop., a pillar, support, prop (cf. columen), Lucil. ap. Don. Ter. Phorm. 2, 1, 57.

Cŏlŭmella, ae, m., a Roman cognomen in the gens Junia; so,

M. Junius Moderatus Columella, of Hispania Bœtica, uncle of the following. —

L. Junius Moderatus Columella, a well-known writer on husbandry, in the first century of the Christian era. He was of Gades, and a companion of Seneca and Celsus; his writings, De Re Rustica and De Arboribus, are yet extant; v. Schneid. Scriptt. Rei Rust. II. 2 praef.; Col. 7, 2, 4; 7, 10, 185; Plin. 8, 41, 63, § 153; 17, 9, 6, §§ 51 and 52; Pall. 1, 19, 3.

con-sanguĭnĕus, a, um ( gen. plur. consanguineūm, Lucr. 3, 73), adj., springing from the same blood, related by blood.

In a restricted sense, of brothers and sisters, brotherly, sisterly (so mostly poet.):

umbrae,

Ov. M. 8, 476:

turba,

id. H. 14, 121:

scelus,

Stat. Th. 11, 407:

angues,

i. e. born with her, kindred, id. ib. 11, 61:

acies,

Claud. in Rufin. 2, 237.—Of animals: arietes, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 44 (Praetext. v. 21 Rib.). —Of abstract subjects:

caritas ( = benevolentia fraterna),

Val. Max. 5, 5, 3; cf.

scelus,

Stat. Th. 11, 407.— Subst.: consanguĭnĕ-us, i, m., a brother, Cic. Att. 2, 23, 3; and consanguĭnĕa, ae, f., a sister, Cat. 64, 118. —

In a more gen. sense, related, kindred:

homines,

Caes. B. C. 1, 74:

Turnus,

Verg. A. 7, 366:

Roma,

Sil. 1, 608:

dextra,

id. 1, 655. —Esp. freq. as subst. plur.: consanguĭ-nĕi, ōrum, kindred, relations, Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 77; Cic. Inv. 1, 24, 35; Caes. B. G. 1, 11; 1, 33; Suet. Caes. 81; id. Claud. 25.—General senses, related, kindred (so most freq. in prose and poetry), Lucr. 3, 73; 6, 1282; cf. Dig. 38, 16, 1.—

Poet., transf.:

consanguineus Leti Sopor,

Verg. A. 6, 278 (in acc. with Hom. Il. x, 231: Upnos kasignêtos Thanatoio).—

Trop.:

res rustica proxima et quasi consanguinea sapientiae,

Col. 1, prooem. § 4.

con-sanguĭnĕus, a, um ( gen. plur. consanguineūm, Lucr. 3, 73), adj., springing from the same blood, related by blood.

In a restricted sense, of brothers and sisters, brotherly, sisterly (so mostly poet.):

umbrae,

Ov. M. 8, 476:

turba,

id. H. 14, 121:

scelus,

Stat. Th. 11, 407:

angues,

i. e. born with her, kindred, id. ib. 11, 61:

acies,

Claud. in Rufin. 2, 237.—Of animals: arietes, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 44 (Praetext. v. 21 Rib.). —Of abstract subjects:

caritas ( = benevolentia fraterna),

Val. Max. 5, 5, 3; cf.

scelus,

Stat. Th. 11, 407.— Subst.: consanguĭnĕ-us, i, m., a brother, Cic. Att. 2, 23, 3; and consanguĭnĕa, ae, f., a sister, Cat. 64, 118. —

In a more gen. sense, related, kindred:

homines,

Caes. B. C. 1, 74:

Turnus,

Verg. A. 7, 366:

Roma,

Sil. 1, 608:

dextra,

id. 1, 655. —Esp. freq. as subst. plur.: consanguĭ-nĕi, ōrum, kindred, relations, Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 77; Cic. Inv. 1, 24, 35; Caes. B. G. 1, 11; 1, 33; Suet. Caes. 81; id. Claud. 25.—General senses, related, kindred (so most freq. in prose and poetry), Lucr. 3, 73; 6, 1282; cf. Dig. 38, 16, 1.—

Poet., transf.:

consanguineus Leti Sopor,

Verg. A. 6, 278 (in acc. with Hom. Il. x, 231: Upnos kasignêtos Thanatoio).—

Trop.:

res rustica proxima et quasi consanguinea sapientiae,

Col. 1, prooem. § 4.

con-sanguĭnĕus, a, um ( gen. plur. consanguineūm, Lucr. 3, 73), adj., springing from the same blood, related by blood.

In a restricted sense, of brothers and sisters, brotherly, sisterly (so mostly poet.):

umbrae,

Ov. M. 8, 476:

turba,

id. H. 14, 121:

scelus,

Stat. Th. 11, 407:

angues,

i. e. born with her, kindred, id. ib. 11, 61:

acies,

Claud. in Rufin. 2, 237.—Of animals: arietes, Att. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 22, 44 (Praetext. v. 21 Rib.). —Of abstract subjects:

caritas ( = benevolentia fraterna),

Val. Max. 5, 5, 3; cf.

scelus,

Stat. Th. 11, 407.— Subst.: consanguĭnĕ-us, i, m., a brother, Cic. Att. 2, 23, 3; and consanguĭnĕa, ae, f., a sister, Cat. 64, 118. —

In a more gen. sense, related, kindred:

homines,

Caes. B. C. 1, 74:

Turnus,

Verg. A. 7, 366:

Roma,

Sil. 1, 608:

dextra,

id. 1, 655. —Esp. freq. as subst. plur.: consanguĭ-nĕi, ōrum, kindred, relations, Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 77; Cic. Inv. 1, 24, 35; Caes. B. G. 1, 11; 1, 33; Suet. Caes. 81; id. Claud. 25.—General senses, related, kindred (so most freq. in prose and poetry), Lucr. 3, 73; 6, 1282; cf. Dig. 38, 16, 1.—

Poet., transf.:

consanguineus Leti Sopor,

Verg. A. 6, 278 (in acc. with Hom. Il. x, 231: Upnos kasignêtos Thanatoio).—

Trop.:

res rustica proxima et quasi consanguinea sapientiae,

Col. 1, prooem. § 4.

Fălernus ăger, the Falernian territory, famed for its wines, in Campania, at the foot of Mount Massicus, Plin. 14. 6, 8, § 62; Cic. Agr. 2, 25, 66.— Subst.:

in Faler no,

in Falernus, Varr. R. R. 1, 8, 2.—

Derivv.: Fălernus, a, um, adj., of or from the Falernian territory, Falernian:

vinum,

Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 6; cf.

vitis,

Hor. C. 3, 1, 43; 1, 20, 10:

uvae,

id. ib. 2, 6, 19:

mustum,

id. S. 2, 4, 19:

praela,

Prop. 4 (5), 6, 73:

cellae,

Verg. G. 2, 96:

faex,

Hor. S. 2, 4, 55 et saep.:

mons, i. e. Massicus,

Flor. 1, [p. 721] 16; cf.

saltus,

id. 2, 6:

pira,

Plin. 15, 15, 16, § 53: tribus, a tribus rustica in Campania, Liv. 9, 20, 6 (al. Falerina).—

Subst.: Fălernum, i, n.

(Sc. vinum.) Falernian wine, Falernian, Hor. C. 1, 27, 10; 2, 11, 19: id. S. 2, 3, 115; id. Ep. 1, 14, 34 al.; also as masc. (sc. cadi):

fumosi Falerni,

Tib. 2, 1, 27.—

(Sc. praedium.) The name of a country seat of Pompey, Cic. Phil. 13, 5, 11; id. Clu. 62, 175.

Fălernus ăger, the Falernian territory, famed for its wines, in Campania, at the foot of Mount Massicus, Plin. 14. 6, 8, § 62; Cic. Agr. 2, 25, 66.— Subst.:

in Faler no,

in Falernus, Varr. R. R. 1, 8, 2.—

Derivv.: Fălernus, a, um, adj., of or from the Falernian territory, Falernian:

vinum,

Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 6; cf.

vitis,

Hor. C. 3, 1, 43; 1, 20, 10:

uvae,

id. ib. 2, 6, 19:

mustum,

id. S. 2, 4, 19:

praela,

Prop. 4 (5), 6, 73:

cellae,

Verg. G. 2, 96:

faex,

Hor. S. 2, 4, 55 et saep.:

mons, i. e. Massicus,

Flor. 1, [p. 721] 16; cf.

saltus,

id. 2, 6:

pira,

Plin. 15, 15, 16, § 53: tribus, a tribus rustica in Campania, Liv. 9, 20, 6 (al. Falerina).—

Subst.: Fălernum, i, n.

(Sc. vinum.) Falernian wine, Falernian, Hor. C. 1, 27, 10; 2, 11, 19: id. S. 2, 3, 115; id. Ep. 1, 14, 34 al.; also as masc. (sc. cadi):

fumosi Falerni,

Tib. 2, 1, 27.—

(Sc. praedium.) The name of a country seat of Pompey, Cic. Phil. 13, 5, 11; id. Clu. 62, 175.

Fălernus ăger, the Falernian territory, famed for its wines, in Campania, at the foot of Mount Massicus, Plin. 14. 6, 8, § 62; Cic. Agr. 2, 25, 66.— Subst.:

in Faler no,

in Falernus, Varr. R. R. 1, 8, 2.—

Derivv.: Fălernus, a, um, adj., of or from the Falernian territory, Falernian:

vinum,

Varr. R. R. 1, 2, 6; cf.

vitis,

Hor. C. 3, 1, 43; 1, 20, 10:

uvae,

id. ib. 2, 6, 19:

mustum,

id. S. 2, 4, 19:

praela,

Prop. 4 (5), 6, 73:

cellae,

Verg. G. 2, 96:

faex,

Hor. S. 2, 4, 55 et saep.:

mons, i. e. Massicus,

Flor. 1, [p. 721] 16; cf.

saltus,

id. 2, 6:

pira,

Plin. 15, 15, 16, § 53: tribus, a tribus rustica in Campania, Liv. 9, 20, 6 (al. Falerina).—

Subst.: Fălernum, i, n.

(Sc. vinum.) Falernian wine, Falernian, Hor. C. 1, 27, 10; 2, 11, 19: id. S. 2, 3, 115; id. Ep. 1, 14, 34 al.; also as masc. (sc. cadi):

fumosi Falerni,

Tib. 2, 1, 27.—

(Sc. praedium.) The name of a country seat of Pompey, Cic. Phil. 13, 5, 11; id. Clu. 62, 175.

Fescennĭa, ae, f. (also Fescennĭ-um, ii, n., Serv. Verg. A. 7, 695), an ancient but small city of Etruria, on the Tiber, not far from Falerii, famous for a sort of sportive and jeering dialogues in verse named after it, Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 52; Serv. l. l.; v. Dennis, Etrur. 1, p. 152 sq. (acc. to Gell. and Müll. the modern Civita Castellana; acc. to Dennis, near Borghetto).—

Deriv.: Fescennīnus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Fescennia, Fescennine:

acies,

Verg. A. 7, 695:

Fescennina per hunc inventa licentia morem Versibus alternis opprobria rustica fudit,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 145:

versus,

Liv. 7, 2, 7; Paul. ex Fest. p. 85 Müll.:

locutio,

Cat. 61, 127:

materia,

Sid. Ep. 8, 11:

pes,

i. e. an amphimacer, Diom. p. 475 P.— Subst.: Fescennīni, ōrum, m., Fescennine verses, Fescennines, Macr. S. 2, 4:

nuptiales,

Sen. Contr. 3, 21 med. p. 252 Bip.; Plin. 15, 22, 24, § 86.—Also. Fescen-nīna, ōrum, n. (sc. carmina, Prud. Cont. Symm. 1, 261; Mart. Cap. 9, § 914 (the derivation of these Fescennini from fascinum seems improbable).—

Transf., Fe-scennīnus, i, m., a lampooner: spatiator atque Fescenninus, Cato ap. Fest. s. v. spatiatorem, p. 344 Müll.; Macr. S. 2, 10, 9.

Fescennĭa, ae, f. (also Fescennĭ-um, ii, n., Serv. Verg. A. 7, 695), an ancient but small city of Etruria, on the Tiber, not far from Falerii, famous for a sort of sportive and jeering dialogues in verse named after it, Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 52; Serv. l. l.; v. Dennis, Etrur. 1, p. 152 sq. (acc. to Gell. and Müll. the modern Civita Castellana; acc. to Dennis, near Borghetto).—

Deriv.: Fescennīnus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Fescennia, Fescennine:

acies,

Verg. A. 7, 695:

Fescennina per hunc inventa licentia morem Versibus alternis opprobria rustica fudit,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 145:

versus,

Liv. 7, 2, 7; Paul. ex Fest. p. 85 Müll.:

locutio,

Cat. 61, 127:

materia,

Sid. Ep. 8, 11:

pes,

i. e. an amphimacer, Diom. p. 475 P.— Subst.: Fescennīni, ōrum, m., Fescennine verses, Fescennines, Macr. S. 2, 4:

nuptiales,

Sen. Contr. 3, 21 med. p. 252 Bip.; Plin. 15, 22, 24, § 86.—Also. Fescen-nīna, ōrum, n. (sc. carmina, Prud. Cont. Symm. 1, 261; Mart. Cap. 9, § 914 (the derivation of these Fescennini from fascinum seems improbable).—

Transf., Fe-scennīnus, i, m., a lampooner: spatiator atque Fescenninus, Cato ap. Fest. s. v. spatiatorem, p. 344 Müll.; Macr. S. 2, 10, 9.

Fescennĭa, ae, f. (also Fescennĭ-um, ii, n., Serv. Verg. A. 7, 695), an ancient but small city of Etruria, on the Tiber, not far from Falerii, famous for a sort of sportive and jeering dialogues in verse named after it, Plin. 3, 5, 8, § 52; Serv. l. l.; v. Dennis, Etrur. 1, p. 152 sq. (acc. to Gell. and Müll. the modern Civita Castellana; acc. to Dennis, near Borghetto).—

Deriv.: Fescennīnus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Fescennia, Fescennine:

acies,

Verg. A. 7, 695:

Fescennina per hunc inventa licentia morem Versibus alternis opprobria rustica fudit,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 145:

versus,

Liv. 7, 2, 7; Paul. ex Fest. p. 85 Müll.:

locutio,

Cat. 61, 127:

materia,

Sid. Ep. 8, 11:

pes,

i. e. an amphimacer, Diom. p. 475 P.— Subst.: Fescennīni, ōrum, m., Fescennine verses, Fescennines, Macr. S. 2, 4:

nuptiales,

Sen. Contr. 3, 21 med. p. 252 Bip.; Plin. 15, 22, 24, § 86.—Also. Fescen-nīna, ōrum, n. (sc. carmina, Prud. Cont. Symm. 1, 261; Mart. Cap. 9, § 914 (the derivation of these Fescennini from fascinum seems improbable).—

Transf., Fe-scennīnus, i, m., a lampooner: spatiator atque Fescenninus, Cato ap. Fest. s. v. spatiatorem, p. 344 Müll.; Macr. S. 2, 10, 9.

fructŭōsus, a, um, adj. [fructus, 2.], abounding in fruit, fruitful, productive; profitable, advantageous (very freq. and class.; syn.: fertilis, frugifer).

Lit.:

ager quamvis fertilis sine cultura fructuosus esse non potest,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 5, 13; cf.:

ager optimus et fructuosissimus Corinthius,

id. Agr. 1, 2, 5:

fundus,

id. Rosc. Com. 12, 34:

praedia tam pulchra, tam fructuosa,

id. Rosc. Am. 15, 43:

locus opportunissimus ac fructuosissimus,

Caes. B. G. 1, 30, 3:

fructuosissimae insulae,

Cic. Agr. 2, 32, 87:

palmites,

Col. 5, 5, 13:

erat ei pecuaria res ampla et rustica sane bene culta et fructuosa,

Cic. Quint. 3, 12; cf.

arationes,

id. Phil. 2, 39, 101; Varr. R. R. 1, 65.—

Trop.:

cum tota philosophia frugifera et fructuosa, nec ulla pars ejus inculta ac deserta sit,

Cic. Off. 3, 2, 5:

plerique neque in rebus humanis quicquam bonum norunt nisi quod fructuosum sit, etc.,

id. Lael. 21, 79:

virtutes generi hominum fructuosae,

id. de Or. 2, 84, 344:

virtus aliis,

id. ib. 2, 85, 346:

est non modo liberale paulum nonnumquam de suo jure decedere sed interdum etiam fructuosum,

id. Off. 2, 18, 64:

M. Caelius se esse hominem frugi vult probare, non quia abstinens sit, sed quia utilis multis, id est fructuosus, unde sic dicta frugalitas,

Quint. 1, 6, 29:

fructuosior dos, opp. deterior,

Ulp. Fragm. 6, 16; 17.—Hence, adv.: fructŭ-ōse, profitably, advantageously (late Lat.):

hoc nec dici brevius nec agi fructuosius potest,

Aug. Ep. 77.