compasco

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

com-pasco (con-), no perf., pastum, ĕre, v. n. and a.

I To feed together , feed in common : si compascuus ager est, jus est compascere, Cic. Top. 3, 12; Dig. 8, 5, 20.—

II To feed , pasture , in gen.: Brundisiana (ostrea), Plin. 32, 6, 21, § 61.—

B Pregn.

1 To consume by feeding , to eat : pabulum, Varr. R. R. 2, prooem. § 5; so in pass. , id. ib. 1, 53.—

2 To drive away , destroy by feeding: famem, Plin. 9, 54, 79, § 169.

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