pasco

An Elementary Latin Dictionary

pāscō pāvī, pāstus, ere

PA-, to cause to eat, feed, supply with food : bestias: plures calones atque caballi Pascendi, H.— To feed, nourish, maintain, support : holusculis nos, feed with vegetables : quos dives Anagnia pascit, V.: servos, Iu.: volsis pascunt radicibus herbae (me), V.— To pasture, drive to pasture, attend : sues: greges armentaque, O.: non, me pascente, capellae, cytisum carpetis, V.—Pass, to be fed, feed, graze, pasture : si pulli non pascentur, L.: pascitur in magnā Silā iuvenca, V.: carice pastus acutā, V.: iterum pasto pascitur ante cibo, chews the cud , O.— To feed, supply, cherish, cultivate, let grow : barbam, H.: paverunt Pergama flammas, fed , O.: polus dum sidera pascet, feeds (with vapors), V.: nummos alienos, pile up debts , H.— To pasture, give as pasture : asperrima (collium), V.— To graze, browse : pascentes capellae, V.: saltibus in vacuis, V.: mala gramina, V.: apes arbuta, V.— To consume, lay waste, ravage, desolate : vestros campos, L.—Fig., to feast, delight, satisfy, feed, gratify : oculos, T.: quos Clodi furor incendiis pavit: supplicio oculos: animum picturā, V.: spes inanīs, cherish , V.: his ego rebus pascor, his delector, feast myself : maleficio et scelere pascuntur, live by : Pascere nostro dolore, O.