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depasco
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Lewis Short
(verb) : dē-pasco, pāvi, pastum, 3, , and dē-pascor, ci, 3
* V. depon., to feed down, feed off.
* Lit.
* Of the shepherd: si d. saepius voles, etc.,Col. 2, 10, 31: glandem immisso pecore depasco,Dig. 10, 4, 9: saltus,Ov. F. 5, 283: luxuriem segetum,Verg. G. 1, 112.
* Trop.
* Form depasco: si haedi roscidas herbas depaverint,Col. 7, 5, 21; Verg. G. 4, 539.—In the part. perf.: saepes Hyblaeis apibus florem depasta salicti,id. E. 1, 55; segetes,Plin. 18, 17, 45, § 161: altaria, poet. for that which is upon it, Verg. A. 5, 93.
* Form depascor: papilio ceras depascitur,Plin. 11, 19, 21, § 65: miseros morsu depascitur artus (serpens),Verg. A. 2, 215; Vulg. Exod. 22, 5.—In the part. perf., Claud. VI. Cons. Honor. 239; cf.: depastis juvencis, Auct. Laud. Herc. 77.
* Depon.
* To cull, select: omnia nos itidem depascimur aurea dicta,Lucr. 3, 12.
* Rarely in the act. form: et potuit Latium longo depascere bello?Sil. 16, 681: in inferno positi sunt; mors depascet eos,Vulg. Psa. 48, 14 (cf. carpo, no. II. B. 2: decerpo, no. II. B. 2 al.).—The part. perf. in a pass. signif.: ipsaque diris Frons depasta modis,Sil. 6, 51: depasti flammis scopuli,id. 12, 153.
* To destroy, waste: veterem possessionem Academiae,id. Leg. 1, 21, 55; so of disease: artus depascitur arida febris,Verg. G. 3, 458; imitated by Claud. in Rufin. 1, 302; id. Idyll. 3, 11.
* V. depon., to feed down, feed off.
* Lit.
* Of the shepherd: si d. saepius voles, etc.,Col. 2, 10, 31: glandem immisso pecore depasco,Dig. 10, 4, 9: saltus,Ov. F. 5, 283: luxuriem segetum,Verg. G. 1, 112.
* Trop.
* Form depasco: si haedi roscidas herbas depaverint,Col. 7, 5, 21; Verg. G. 4, 539.—In the part. perf.: saepes Hyblaeis apibus florem depasta salicti,id. E. 1, 55; segetes,Plin. 18, 17, 45, § 161: altaria, poet. for that which is upon it, Verg. A. 5, 93.
* Form depascor: papilio ceras depascitur,Plin. 11, 19, 21, § 65: miseros morsu depascitur artus (serpens),Verg. A. 2, 215; Vulg. Exod. 22, 5.—In the part. perf., Claud. VI. Cons. Honor. 239; cf.: depastis juvencis, Auct. Laud. Herc. 77.
* Depon.
* To cull, select: omnia nos itidem depascimur aurea dicta,Lucr. 3, 12.
* Rarely in the act. form: et potuit Latium longo depascere bello?Sil. 16, 681: in inferno positi sunt; mors depascet eos,Vulg. Psa. 48, 14 (cf. carpo, no. II. B. 2: decerpo, no. II. B. 2 al.).—The part. perf. in a pass. signif.: ipsaque diris Frons depasta modis,Sil. 6, 51: depasti flammis scopuli,id. 12, 153.
* To destroy, waste: veterem possessionem Academiae,id. Leg. 1, 21, 55; so of disease: artus depascitur arida febris,Verg. G. 3, 458; imitated by Claud. in Rufin. 1, 302; id. Idyll. 3, 11.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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