ălĭmentum (noun N) : alo
* Nourishment, nutriment; and concr., food, provisions, aliment (in the poets only in the plur.).
* In gen.: alimenta corporis,Cic. Univ. 6: plus alimenti est in pane quam in ullo alio,Cels. 2, 18; so id. 8, 1; Plin. 17, 13, 20: alimenta reponere in hiemem,Quint. 2, 16, 16; Suet. Tib. 54; cf. Tac. A. 6, 23: alimenta petens,Vulg. Gen. 41, 55: alimenta negare,Ov. Tr 5, 8, 13: habentes alimenta et quibus tegamur,Vulg. 1 Tim. 6, 8.—In the jurists: alimenta,all things which pertain to the support of life, aliment, maintenance, support,Dig. 34, tit. 1, De alimentis, and 1. 6.— Poet. (very freq. in Ovid): picem et ceras, alimentaque cetera flammae,Ov. M. 14, 532: concipit Iris aquas, alimentaque nubibus affert,id. ib. 1, 271: lacrimaeque alimenta fuere,tears were his food,id. ib. 10, 75 (cf.: fuerunt mihi lacrimae meae panes die ac nocte,Vulg. Psa. 41, 4): ignis,Ov. M. 8, 837. —Trop.: vitiorum,Ov. M. 2, 769: furoris,id. ib. 3, 479: addidit alimenta rumoribus,gave new support to the rumors,Liv. 35, 23 fin.: alimentum famae,Tac. H. 2, 96: alimentum virtutis honos,Val. Max. 2, 6, 5.
* Esp., for the Gr. τροφεῖα or θρέπτρα, the reward or recompense due to parents from children for their rearing: quasi alimenta exspectarct a nobis (patria), Cic. Rep. 1, 4 Mos. (in Val. Fl. 6, 570, this is expressed by nutrimenta; in Dig. 50, 13, 1, § 14, by nutricia).

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