fabarius

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

făbārĭus, a, um, adj. [faba].

I Of or belonging to beans , bean- : pilum, Cato R. R. 10, 5: Calendae, i. e. of June (because then an offering was made of the first beans), acc. to Macr. S. 1, 12: ‡ negociatio, Inscr. Orell. 2515.—

II Făbārĭa , an island of the German Ocean , now Borkurn , Plin. 4, 13, 27, § 97; 18, 12, 30, § 121.—

III făbārĭa , ae, f., a female dealer in beans , Inscr. Donat. 465, 9.