I.of grass, covered with grass, grassy.
I. In gen.: “campus,” Verg. A. 5, 287: “palaestrae,” id. ib. 6, 642: “sedile,” id. ib. 8, 176: “arae,” id. ib. 12, 119: corona obsidionalis, a grass crown presented by those who were delivered from a siege to their deliverer, among the Romans the highest mark of military honor, Liv. 7, 37, 2; cf. Plin. 22, 3, 4, § 6; Gell. 5, 6, 8; cf. Dict. of Antiq. p. 309.—
II. In partic., of Indian reed, bamboo: “hasta (Minervae),” Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 56, § 125.
