Gramen, gráminis, pen. cor. n g. Herba: Sauguinaria vulgo appellatur. Pli. Dioscorides calleth it Coronopus. It spreadeth and groweth by knottes, and is of all other moste pleasant to beastes: some haue taken it for Stichworte, but not truely. Gramen generali vocabulo quancunque herbam comprehendit.Cic.Grasse.Graminis hereba.Liu. Crispum gramen. Claud. Floreum. Mart. Ignobile. Virg.Inexpugnabile.Ouidius.Grasse that one can by no meanes ouetcome.Lætum.Virg.Battle grasse. Mala gramina pastus. Virgil. In molli gramine prostrati. Lucr. Montanum gramen.Ouid. Roscida gramina. Claud. Tenerum gramen. Hor. Viridi se gramine vestit tellus.Virg. Canent gramina. Vir. The grasse inhoare with dewe.Carpunt gramen equi.Virg.The horses grase.Gramina credunt se in nonos soles.Virg. Vide CREDO. Desectum gramen.Ouid.Grasse mowed or cut downe.Redeunt iam gramina campis. Horat. Grasse springeth againe.Tondentes gramina oues. Lucr. Sheepe grasing.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
grāmen, ĭnis, n. [Sanscr. root gar-, to swallow; Gr. bor- in bibrw/skw, bora/; Lat. -vorus, in carnivorus, vorare, etc.; hence, fuller root gras-; Gr. gra/stis; Lat. grāmen for gras-men; cf. Germ. Gras; Engl. grass], grass (cf.: herba, faenum, cespes, glaeba). (a).Sing.: prostrati in gramine molli, Lucr. 2, 29; 5, 1392; Hor. Epod. 2, 24: cervus graminis immemor, id. C. 1, 15, 30: aprici campi, id. A. P. 162: graminis herba,
, id. 8, 60.—(b).Plur.: tondere gramina, Lucr. 2, 660; Hor. C. 4, 7, 1; 4, 1, 39; Verg. E. 10, 29; id. G. 1, 56; 2, 200 et saep.—II.Transf., a plant, herb.A. In gen.: ignobile cerinthae, Verg. G. 4, 63: Indum,
Indian aromatic herbs
, Stat. S. 2, 1, 187; cf.: Arabum de gramine odores, Prop. 2, 29 (3, 27), 17; Quint. 5, 8, 1: non illa feris incognita capris Gramina (i. e. dictamnus), Verg. A. 12, 415: neve parum valeant a se data gramina, Ov. M. 7, 137 (for which: accepit cantatas herbas, id. ib. 7, 98).—B. In partic., dog's-grass, couch-grass, Plin. 24, 19, 118, 178 sq.