mĕdĭcāmen — Lewis & Short
mĕdĭcāmen, ĭnis, n.id.,
I a drug, medicament, in a good and a bad sense, meaning both a healing substance, remedy, medicine, and, as also medicamentum and the Gr. fa/rmakon, a poisonous drug, poison (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; only once in Cic.; cf., on the contrary, medicamentum).
I Lit., a remedy, antidote, medicine: violentis medicaminibus curari, * Cic. Pis. 6, 13:
agrestia medicamina adhibent,Tac. A. 12, 51:
facies medicaminibus interstincta,plasters, id. ib. 4, 57:
medicamen habendum est,Juv. 14, 254:
medicaminis datio vel impositio,Cod. Just. 6, 23, 28:
potentia materni medicaminis,Pall. 3, 28:
tantum (ejus) medicamina possunt quae steriles facit,Juv. 6, 595.—
B Trop., a remedy, antidote (poet.):
iratae medica mina fortia praebe,Ov. A. A. 2, 489 sq.. quasso medicamina Imperio circumspectare, Sil. 15, 7, 1.—
II Transf.
A A poisonous drug, poison:
infusum delectabili cibo boletorum venenum, nec vim medicaminis statim mtellectam,Tac. A. 12, 67:
noxium,id. ib. 14, 51:
impura,Flor. 2, 20, 7; Val. Fl. 8, 17.—
B A coloring-matter, tincture, dye, Plin. 9, 38, 62, § 135:
croceum,Luc. 3, 238.—
2 In partic., a paint, wash, cosmetic: est mihi, quo dixi vestrae medicamina formae, Parvus, sed cura grande libellus opus, i. e. the treatise Medicamina faciei, Ov. A. A. 3, 205:
facies medicamine attrita,Petr. 126.—
C In gen., an artificial means of improving a thing:
qui (caseus) exiguum medicaminis habet,i. e. rennet, Col. 7, 8:
vitiosum, i. e. conditura,id. 12, 20:
vina medicamine instaurare,Plin. 14, 20, 25, § 126:
seminum,i. e. manure, id. 17, 14, 22, § 99.