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The corpus record — Latin

pabulum

pabulum · n

food

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

  • Lydia, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 18.76/10k
  • Dirae, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 15.41/10k
  • Res Rustica, Books I-IX 58 · 7.37/10k
  • Georgicon 10 · 7.07/10k
  • De ieiunio adversus psychicos 4 · 6.77/10k
  • Ad Scapulam 1 · 6.7/10k
  • Culex, Appendix Vergiliana 1 · 3.83/10k
  • de bello Gildonico 1 · 3.16/10k
  • De Rerum Natura 15 · 3.08/10k
  • De agri cultura 4 · 2.56/10k
  • Ibis 1 · 2.54/10k
  • Carminum minorum corpusculum 2 · 2.37/10k

Densest 12 of 66 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

pābŭlum — Lewis & Short

pābŭlum, i, n.from the root pa, whence also pa-sco,

I food, nourishment.
I Lit.
A Of men (only poet.): dura mundi, Lucr. 5, 944: dira (of the human food of Polyphemus), Val. Fl. 4, 105; Stat. Th. 12, 566.—
B Of animals, food, fodder (very freq. and class.): bubus pabulum parare, Cato, R. R. 54, 1: pabulo pecoris student (Numidae), Sall. J. 90, 1: secare pabulum, Caes. B. G. 7, 14: supportare, id. B. C. 3, 58: consumere, id. B. G. 7, 18: conquirere, Hirt. B. G. 8, 10: comparare, Nep. Eum. 8: hirundo Pabula parva legens, Verg. A. 12, 475: pabula decerpere, Ov. M. 13, 943: pabula carpsit ovis, id. F. 4, 750; id. P. 1, 2, 122: praebere feris, Lucr. 4, 685; 5, 991: pabula laeta, id. 2, 364; 875: luna feras ducit ad pabula, Petr. 100: viciam conserere in pabulum, Col. 11, 2, 71: cervi noctu procedunt ad pabula, Plin. 8, 32, 50, § 117: subus serpentes in pabulo sunt, id. 11, 53, 115, § 279: ager frugum pabulique laetus, i. e. food for men and beasts, Sall. H. 2, 91 Dietsch; id. J. 90, 1.—
II Trop., food, nourishment, sustenance (class.): Acheruntis pabulum, food for Acheron (said of one who deserves to die), Plaut. Cas. 2, 1, 11: piscibus in alto credo praehibent pabulum, id. Rud. 2, 6, 29: amoris, Lucr. 4, 1063: est enim animorum ingeniorumque naturale quoddam quasi pabulum consideratio contemplatioque naturae, Cic. Ac. 2, 41, 127: studii atque doctrinae, id. Sen. 14, 49: dederatque gravi nova pabula morbo, Ov. M. 8, 876.—Of manure: pabula fesso praebere novali, Col. 10, 84; 2, 5, 1.—Of nourishment for the mind: quasi pabula quaedam animo ad sublimiora scandendi conquirens, Amm. 14, 5, 6.

In the wild

6 of 280 attestations shown.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.