PAbulum, pabuli, penult. cor. Cæsat. Forrage or meate for beastes, by translation euery thyng that feedeth, mainetaineth or nourisheth.Hebernum pabulum. Plin. Dia pabula. Lucret. Diva. Sta. Insueta. Vir. Læta.Virg. Larga. Lucret. Luxuriosa. Vide LVXVS. Nacuralia.Cic. Pinguia. Virg.Tristia. Sen. Virgea.Virg. Viridia. Quint. Pabula caneseunt.Ouid.Grasse is withered.Terræ concipiunt pabula.Virg.Decespere pabula.Ouid.To feede or eate.Disteodi pabulo. Quint. To stroute or be filled with meate.Infensare pabula.Tacit.To hurt or binder forrage.Parua pabula legens hirundo.Virg.Metere pabula falce.Ouid.To mowe grasse or forrage.Obterere pabula. Lucan. Nocturna pabula petunt fœtæ. Sen. Propellere in pabulum, Vide PROPELLO.Mollia pabula surguot.Ouid. Pabulum, per trauslatíonem.Any thing that feedeth and maintaineth. vt. Amoris pabula sibi absrerrere. Lucr.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
pābŭlum, i, n. [from the root pa, whence also pa-sco], 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.