Fartus, siue Farctus, parricip. Cic.Stuffed: filled: crammed.Puluinus rosa farctus.Cic.A cushin or pillow filled or stuffed with roses. Fartus ventriculus coriandro. Plin.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
farcĭo, farsi, fartum, sometimes farctum (post-class. form farsum, Petr. 69; Apic. 4, 2; 8, 8; and farcītum, Cassiod. Inst. Div. Litt. 22), 4, v. a. [Gr. frak-, fra/ssw, to shut in; cf. Lat. frequens; Germ. Berg, Burg], to stuff, cram, fill full (class.). I.Lit.A. In gen.: pulvinus perlucidus Melitensi rosa fartus, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 11, 27: medios parietes farcire fractis caementis, Plin. 36, 22, 51, 172: intestinum, Apic. 2, 3: mustelae ventriculus coriandro fartus, Plin. 29, 4, 16, 60: Jovis satelles jecore opimo farta et satiata, etc., Cic. Poët. Tusc. 2, 10, 24; cf.: edaces et se ultra quam capiunt farcientes, Sen. Ep. 108.— B. In partic., to fatten an animal, = saginare: gallinas et anseres sic farcito, Cato, R. R. 89; Varr. R. R. 3, 9 fin.; Col. 8, 7, 4.—II.Transf. (rare; not in Cic.). A. In gen., to fill, cram with any thing: fartum totum theatrum,
filled
, App. Flor. p. 353, 37: infinitis vectigalibus (rex) erat fartus, Vitr. 2, 8 med.; Cat. 28, 12.—B.To stuff or cram into: in os farciri pannos imperavit, Sen. Ira, 3, 19: totum lignum in gulam, id. Ep. 70 med.: ischaemon in nares, Plin. 25, 8, 45, 83: hinc farta premitur angulo Ceres omni, i. e.
, Plaut. Trin. 5, 2, 45, acc. to Ritschl.—Comically: fartum vestis, i. q. corpus, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 13 (but in Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 8, read stragem, v. Ritschl ad h. l.).