(adj.adv.) : fĕrax, ācis, adj.fero
* Fruit-bearing, fruitful, fertile (rare but class.).
* Lit. —Absol.: terrae, * Lucr. 2, 1098: agri,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 44, § 104; cf.: feracissimosque agros possidere, * Caes. B. G. 2, 4, 6: Sardinia, Hor. C. 1, 31, 4: Algidus,id. ib. 4, 4, 58: Aegyptus,Suet. Aug. 18: plantae,Verg. G. 2, 79.
* With gen., abounding in, productive of (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): Iberia, venenorum ferax,Hor. Epod. 5, 22: Peparethos nitidae olivae,Ov. M. 7, 470: terra Cereris,id. Am. 2, 16, 7: terra arborum,Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 15: acini musti,Plin. 15, 24, 29, § 100.
* Trop., rich, fertile, fruitful: nullus feracior in philosophia locus est, nec uberior, quam de officiis,Cic. Off. 3, 2, 5: nihil est feracius ingeniis,id. Or. 15, 48: prolisque novae feraci Lege marita,Hor. Carm. Sec. 19: ferax saeculum bonis artibus,Plin. Ep. 4, 15, 8: sitne feracius et uberius non ad laudem modo, sed ad pecuniam principi, si, etc.,id. Pan. 43, 3.—Hence, * adv.: fĕrācĭter, fruitfully: velut ab stirpibus laetius feraciusque renata urbs,Liv. 6, 1, 3.
* Act., making fruitful: venti,Pall. Nov. 5.

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