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cĭbus , i, m. perh. root of capio,
I.food for man and beast, victuals, fare, nutriment, fodder (class. in prose and poetry, both in sing. and plur.; syn.: esca, epulae; “opp. potio,” Cic. Fin. 1, 11, 37; cf. id. N. D. 2, 54, 136; so, “cibus potusque,” Tac. A. 13, 16: “cibus et vinum,” Cic. Div. 1, 29, 60; Juv. 10, 203: “unda cibusque,” Ov. M. 4, 262): “cibum capere,” Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 60; Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 77: “petere,” id. ib. 3, 2, 38; id. Heaut. 5, 2, 25: “capessere (of animals),” Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 122: “sumere,” Nep. Att. 21, 6; Plin. 30, 5, 12, § 36: “tantum cibi et potionis adhibendum, etc.,” Cic. Sen. 11, 36: “digerere,” Quint. 11, 2, 35; cf. id. 11, 3, 19: “coquere,” Varr. R. R. 2, 10, 7: “concoquere,” Cic. Fin. 2, 20, 64: “mandere,” id. N. D. 2, 54, 134: “cibos suppeditare,” id. Leg. 2, 27, 67: “(Cleanthes) negat ullum esse cibum tam gravem, quin is die et nocte concoquatur,” id. N. D. 2, 9, 24; cf.: “suavissimus et idem facillimus ad concoquendum,” id. Fin. 2, 20, 64: “flentes orabant, ut se cibo juvarent,” Caes. B. G. 7, 78 fin.: “cibus animalis,” the means of nourishment in the air, Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 136: “cibi bubuli,” Varr. R. R. 2, 11, 3; 1, 23, 2: “cibus erat caro ferina,” Sall. J. 18, 1: “cum tenues hamos abdidit ante cibus,” the bait, Tib. 2, 6, 24; Ov. M. 8, 856; 15, 476.—
B. Transf. to the nourishment of plants, the nutritive juice, Lucr. 1, 353; Plin. 17, 2, 2, § 12.—
II. Trop., food, sustenance (rare): “quasi quidam humanitatis cibus,” Cic. Fin. 5, 19, 54: “cibus furoris,” Ov. M. 6, 480: “causa cibusque mali,” id. R. Am. 138.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (23):
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 7.78
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 4.262
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 6.480
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8.856
    • Plautus, Trinummus, 4.2
    • Tacitus, Annales, 13.16
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 1.353
    • Cornelius Nepos, Atticus, 21.6
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 17.12
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 30.36
    • Cicero, De Legibus, 2.27
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 1.11
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 2.20
    • Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum, 5.19
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 2.47
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 2.54
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 2.55
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 2.9
    • Cicero, De Senectute, 11
    • Cicero, De Divinatione, 1.29
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 11, 3.19
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 11, 2.35
    • Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum, 18
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