Seges, tis. pe. cor. f. g. Pli. Corne standing. Sometime land tylled, and readie to he suwen.Luxuries segetum.Virg.Rapinæ præmaturæ segetum. Lucan. Aegra seges.Virg. Feraces segetes. Hor. Altæ segetes.Virg. Fertilior seges Ouid.Arida seges. Oui. Grauida. Virg.Cana.Ouid. Immatura. S. Dura. Tibul. Intacta. Virg.Inualidas segetes torret aer siccior. Auienus. Lætæ segetes, Vide LAETVS.Opportuna pecore seges.Virg.Picturata seges. Clau. The speckled pricke of the beast called a porkepin, standing thicke on his backe.Teneræ segetes. Oui. Yong corne in the grasse. Cingenda est altis sepibus ista seges. Oui. This sield must be bounded about with high bedges.Lætas facere segetes.Virg.Validas segetes mora facit.Ouid.Iste ager feret segetes Ouid.Adulta leni fluctuat Zephyro seges. Sen. Indui segetibus dicitur terta. Plin iun. Intereunt segetes.Virg.Metere segetem. Sil. Herbæ obducunt segetem.Virg.The weedes ouercome the corne.Occare segetes. Hor. Pectinare segetem, Vide Pectino in PECTEN.Prætendere sepem segeti.Virg.To make an hedge before.Proculcare crescentes segetes.Ouid.Resecanda falce seges.Ouid.To be mowen.Runcare segetem. Varro. Senescit seges nimio imbre.Stat.Sternuntur segetes.Ouid. Matura seges surgit. Sen. Hic segeres veniunt, fœlicius.Virg.In this place corne gro. weth or prooueth better.Vrit campum seges lini.Virg. Seges. Varro. Land tilled or sowne.Segetes quæ interquieuere. Pli. Land that hath lien fallow.Fœcunda seges. Luca. Fertile land. Seges stimalorum.Plaut.Ferrea seges telorum. Vir. A multitude of weapons standing vp thick, as it were corne on the ground.Nec galeis densilque virûm seges horruit hastis. Vir. Clypeata seges virorum. On. A multitude of men standing thicke with tergets. Seges ac materia gloriæ. Cice. The occasion and matter to get glorie by.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
sĕgĕs, ĕtis, f. [etym. dub.; perh. root sag-, to fill, feed; Gr. sa/ttw; Lat. sagmen, q. v.], 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, id. 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.