hordĕārĭus (also ordearius and hordĭarius), a, um, adj. [hordeum],
I of or relat. ing to barley , barley- : pira, barley-pears , i. e. pears that are ripe at barley-harvest , Plin. 15, 15, 16, § 55 (also called hordeacea pira, Col. 5, 10, 18); so, pruna, Plin. 15, 13, 12, § 41: hordiarium aes, quod pro hordeo equiti Romano dabatur, Paul. ex Fest. p. 102 Müll.; cf. Liv. 1, 43, 9 (Weissenb. ad loc.): Gai. Inst. 4, 27: antiquissimum in cibis hordeum, sicut Atheniensium ritu apparet et gladiatorum cognomine, qui hordearii vocabantur, Plin. 18, 7, 14, § 72: pecunia ex qua hordeum equis erat comparandum ... dicebatur aes hordiarium, Gai. Inst. 4, 27. —
II Like barley , i. e. inflated: hunc eundem M. Coelius hordearium rhetorem appellat, deridens ut inflatum ac levem et sordidum, Suet. Rhet. 2.