sĕgĕs — Lewis & Short
sĕgĕs, ĕtis, f.etym. dub.; perh. root sag-, to fill, feed; Gr. sa/ttw; Lat. sagmen, q. v.,
I a cornfield.
I 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, Cic. 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.—
B 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.—
II Trop.
A (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.—
B (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.