Lewis Short
(adjective) : faenĕus (fēn-, foen-), a, um, faenum, I.
* Of hay (very rare): homines faeneos in medium ad tentandum periculum projectos,men of hay, hay effigies,Cic. Fragm. Or. Cornel. 1, 1; cf.: simulacra effigie hominum ex faeno fieri solebant, quibus objectis ad spectaculum praebendum tauri irritarentur,Ascon. p. 62 ed. Orell.
* Fig.: faeneus ille Platonicus Antiochus, August. c. Acad. 3, 18.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary