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marisca

marisca · f

a large inferior kind of fig

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Where it lives

Suasoriae 1 · 0.97/10k
Epigrammata 4 · 0.71/10k
De agri cultura 1 · 0.64/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Naturalis Historia 3 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

mărisca — Lewis & Short

mărisca, ae, f.,

I a large inferior kind of fig.

I Lit.: pingues mariscae, Col. 10, 415: fatua, Mart. 7, 25, 7; in apposition with ficus, Cato, R. R. 8 (also in Plin. 15, 18, 19, § 72); so, mariscae fici, Varr. ap. Non. 550, 31.—*

II Transf., the piles: tumidae mariscae, Juv. 2, 13.

In the wild

mariscas Martial, Epigrammata 7.25.7
mariscam Martial, Epigrammata 12.96.9
mariscas Seneca the Elder, Suasoriae 2.17
mariscae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 16.27.p2
mariscis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 15.18.p1
mariscas Cato, De agri cultura 8

6 of 10 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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