cactus, i, m., = κάκτος,
I a prickly plant with edible stalks , etc., found in Sicily, Spanish artichoke : Cynara cardunculus, Linn.; Plin. 21, 16, 57, § 97.—
II Trop., any thing thorny , unpleasant : eradicato omni cacto et rubo subdolae familiaritatis, Tert. Pall. 2 fin.