sagmĕn

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    Sagmen, sagminis, pen. corr. n. g. Herba. Liu. Vervaine.

sagmen, inis, n. (sacer, sancio), das Heiligende, das auf der Burg gepflückte u. die Fetialen auf der Gesandtschaft heiligende (unverletzlich machende) Grasbüschel, Liv. 1, 24, 4 u. 30, 43, 9. Plin. 22, 5.

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sāmentum (st. sagmentum), ī, n. (= sagmen), Fronto epist. ad M. Caes. 4, 4. p. 67, 3 N.

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.

sĕgĕs, ĕtis, f. [etym. dub.; perh. root sag-, to fill, feed; Gr. sattô; Lat. sagmen, q. v.], a cornfield.

Lit. (freq. and class.):

partem dimidiam (stercoris) in segetem, ubi pabulum seras, invehito,

Cato, R. R. 29; cf. id. ib. 36: segetes subigere aratris, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 395, 15; Cato, R. R. 37; 155; 5, 4 (v. defrugo); id. Fragm. ap. Gell. 13, 17, 1; Varr. R. R. 1, 6, 5; 1, 29, 1; 1, 50, 1 sq.; 1, 69, 1; 2, 7, 11 al.; Lucil., Att., and Varr. ap. Non. 395, 24 sq.; Poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 5, 13; 1, 28, 69:

segetes secundae et uberes,

Cic. Or. 15, 48; id. Sen. 15, 54, id. Verr. 2, 3, 8, § 20:

cohortes frumentatum in proximas segetes misit,

Caes. B. G. 6, 36, 2; Tib. 1, 3, 61; Verg. G. 1, 47 Heyne; 2, 267;

4, 129: segetes occat tibi mox frumenta daturas,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 161; id. C. 1, 31, 4; Col. 2, 14, 2 et saep.—

Comically: stimulorum seges,

a cudgelfield, Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 6.—

Transf., the standing corn, growing corn, crop in a field (class., but not freq. till after the Aug. per.:

est eorum (rusticorum) gemmare vitis, laetas esse segetes, etc.,

Cic. Or. 24, 81; id. de Or. 3, 38, 155, is cited, merely by way of example, as used by the rustici;

syn. messis): seges grandissima atque optima,

Varr. R. R. 1, 52, 1:

culto stat seges alta solo,

Ov. A. A. 3, 102:

seges prope jam matura,

Caes. B. C. 3, 81 fin. (cf. infra, Liv. 2, 5):

antequam seges in articulum eat,

Col. 2, 12, 9:

uligo segetem enecat,

id. 2, 9, 9:

et segetis canae stantes percurrere aristas,

Ov. M. 10, 655:

producit fruges et segetem imbecillem,

Sen. Q. N. 2, 6, 6; id. Ben. 6, 4, 4.— Plur.:

segetes Collibus et campis habere,

Lucr. 5, 1371:

quid faciat laetas segetes,

Verg. G. 1, 1:

adultae segetes,

Col. 2, 9, 10:

segetes laetas excitare,

id. 2, 15, 4:

laetas segetes afferre,

id. 2, 17, 3.—With gen.:

seges farris matura messi,

Liv. 2, 5:

lini et avenae,

Verg. G. 1, 77:

leguminum,

Col. 2, 13, 3.— Poet., of men springing up out of the ground:

crescit seges clipeata virorum,

Ov. M. 3, 110; 7, 30; id. H. 12, 59 al.—Of a multitude of things crowded together, a crop, etc.:

confixum ferrea texit Telorum seges,

Verg. A. 3, 46; cf. id. ib. 7, 526, and 12, 663; so,

ferri,

Claud. in Ruf. 2, 391; cf.:

Mavortia ferri,

id. III. Cons. Hon. 135:

hystricis,

Aus. Idyll. 2 (Claud. Hystr. 12):

aëna (hydraulici organi),

Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 316:

seges osculationis,

Cat. 48, 6.—

Trop.

(Acc. to I. A.) A field, ground, soil (rare but class.): quod beneficium haud sterili in segete, rex, te obsesse intellegis, Att. ap. Non. 395, 27:

fert casiam non culta seges,

Tib. 1, 3, 61:

ubi prima paretur Arboribus seges,

Verg. G. 2, 267:

quid odisset Clodium Milo segetem ac materiem suae gloriae?

Cic. Mil. 13, 35; cf.:

videtur esse criminum seges, maledictorum materia,

Arn. 5, 172.—

(Acc. to I. B.) A crop, fruit, produce, result, profit ( poet. and very rare):

fertile pectus habes, interque Helicona colentes Uberius nulli provenit ista seges,

Ov. P. 4, 2, 12:

quae inde seges,

Juv. 7, 103:

inde seges scelerum,

Prud. Ham. 258.

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VERBENA: VERBENAE (PL)

SAGMEN (-INIS) (N)