I. That has been ploughed, but not yet sown, ploughed, arable: “ager, arvus et arationes ab arando,” Varr. L. L. 5, § 39 Müll.: “arvum, quod aratum nec dum satum est,” id. R. R. 1, 29; Paul. ex Fest. p. 25 Müll.: “aut arvus est ager aut consitus aut pascuus aut florens,” Isid. Orig. 15, 13: “Non arvus hic, sed pascuus est ager,” Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 47: “agri arvi et arbusti et pascui lati atque uberes,” Cic. Rep. 5, 2, 3.—Hence,
II. Subst.
A. arva , ae, f. (sc. terra), an arable field, cornfield; only twice, ante - class., Naev. ap. Non. p. 192, 30; Pac. ib.—
B. arvum , i, n. (sc. solum), an arable field, cultivated land, a field, ploughed land, glebe (cf. Doed. Syn. III. p. 8; “class.): nec scibat ferro molirier arva,” Lucr. 5, 934; 1, 314: “sol lumine conserit arva,” id. 2, 211; cf. id. 2, 1162; Ov. M. 1, 598; 11, 33; Verg. G. 2, 263 et saep.: “ex arvo aeque magno,” Varr. R. R. 1, 7, 2: “prata et arva et pecudum greges diliguntur isto modo, quod fructus ex eis capiuntur,” Cic. N. D. 1, 44, 122: “arva non afferent cibum,” Vulg. Hab. 3, 17: “Numidae pabulo pecoris magis quam arvo student,” Sall. J. 90, 1: “ne perconteris, fundus meus, optime Quincti, Arvo pascat erum,” Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 2 (i. e. frugibus: “arvum autem ab arando dictum est, Crucq.): arva per annos mutant, et superest ager,” Tac. G. 26; Suet. Ner. 31; id. Dom. 7.—
2. Meton.
b. Poet., in gen., fields, plains, regions: arva putria, Liv. And. ap. Fest. p. 181 Müll.: “genus humanum multo fuit in arvis durius,” Lucr. 5, 925; 2, 1154: “nec pisces (queunt) vivere in arvis,” id. 3, 785: “Circaea arva,” Ov. M. 14, 348: “Peneïa,” id. ib. 12, 209; so id. ib. 15, 52; 15, 276; 11, 62; 11, 196; Verg. A. 5, 703 et saep.: “pomosa,” Prop. 5, 7, 81: “quā tumidus rigat arva Nilus,” Hor. C. 3, 3, 48; id. Epod. 16, 54; so, “arva deserti,” Vulg. Jer. 23, 10: “arva pacis,” ib. ib. 25, 37.—Hence also,
