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pastus2

a, um, Part., from pasco

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

1. pastus — Lewis & Short

pastus. a, um,

Part., from pasco.

2. pastus — Lewis & Short

pastus, ūs, m.pasco,

I pasture, fodder, food (class; equally common in sing. and plur.): animalia ad pastum accedunt, Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 122: animantia anquirunt pastum, id. Off. 1, 4, 11: pastum capessere et conficere, id. N. D. 2, 47, 121; id. Fin. 2, 13, 40: e pastu decedens, Verg. G. 1, 381.—In plur.: terra fundit ex sese pastus varios, Cic. Fin. 2, 34, 111: conatum habere ad naturalis pastus capessendos, id. N. D. 2, 47, 122.—

B Transf., food of men (poet. and very rare): hominum pastus pecudumque cibatus, Lucr. 6, 1127.—

II Trop., food, sustenance: populari agros ad praesentem pastum mendicitatis suae, Cic. Phil. 11, 2, 4: pastus animorum, id. Tusc. 5, 23, 66.

In the wild

pastibus Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 12.17.p2
pastui Apuleius, Metamorphoses 4.1

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. pastus (scan p. 192; entry #2985).

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