Lewis Short
pastus (noun M) : pasco
* Pasture, fodder, food (class; equally common in sing. and plur.): animalia ad pastum accedunt,Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 122: animantia anquirunt pastum,id. Off. 1, 4, 11: pastum capessere et conficere,id. N. D. 2, 47, 121; id. Fin. 2, 13, 40: e pastu decedens,Verg. G. 1, 381.—In plur.: terra fundit ex sese pastus varios,Cic. Fin. 2, 34, 111: conatum habere ad naturalis pastus capessendos,id. N. D. 2, 47, 122.
* Transf., food of men (poet. and very rare): hominum pastus pecudumque cibatus,Lucr. 6, 1127.
* Trop., food, sustenance: populari agros ad praesentem pastum mendicitatis suae,Cic. Phil. 11, 2, 4: pastus animorum,id. Tusc. 5, 23, 66.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
Lewis Short
pastus. a, um, Part., from pasco.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary