I.the wild strawberry-tree, the arbute, arbutus: Arbutus unedo, Linn.; Ov. M. 10, 102; cf. Verg. G. 2, 69; Col. 7, 9, 6; 8, 10, 4; Plin. 15, 24, 28, § 99; 23, 8, 79, § 151 al.; its fruit, like that of the oak, was anciently the food of men; cf. “arbutum. Under it the goats were fond of grazing: dulce satis umor, depulsis arbutus haedis, etc.,” Verg. E. 3, 82; so Hor. C. 1, 17, 5; “and idle men of reposing: nunc viridi membra sub arbuto Stratus,” Hor. C. 1, 1, 21.
arbŭtus , i, f. kindr. with arbor, since the arbutus was abundant in Italy,
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.
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