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con-sĕro , sēvi, sĭtum or sătum, 3, v. a. (
I.perf. conseruerit, Col. 3, 4, 2; Aur. Vict. Epit. 37, 3; Dig. 6, 1, 38; v. 1. sero).
I. To sow or plant with something (class.).
A. Lit.: “agros,Cic. N. D. 2, 52, 130; Verg. E. 1, 73; Cato, R. R. 6, 1; Dig. 7, 1, 9, § 6; cf.: “ager diligenter consitus,Cic. Sen. 17, 59: “ager arbustis consitus,Sall. J. 53, 1; and: “consitus an incultus (locus),Quint. 5, 10, 37: “Ismara Baccho (i. e. vino),Verg. G. 2, 38: “vineam malleolo,Col. 5, 5, 6: “arva frumento,Curt. 7, 4, 26.—Absol.: “in alieno fundo,Dig. 6, 1, 38: “in alienum fundum,ib. 41, 1, 9.—
2. Transf.: “arva mūliebria (Venus),Lucr. 4, 1107; cf. Sol. 9 fin.—Hence, conserentes dii, who preside over generation, Arn. 5, 169.—
B. Transf., of columns, to plant, set: “aera (rostra) columnis consita,Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 49.—
C. Trop.: “(sol) lumine conserit arva,strews, fills, Lucr. 2, 211: consitus sum Senectute, * Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 4: caeca mentem caligine Theseus consitus, * Cat. 64, 208.—
II. To sow, plant: “olivetum,Varr. R. R. 1, 24: “hoc genus oleae,Cato, R. R. 6, 1: “arborem,Liv. 10, 24, 5; Curt. 6, 5, 14; 7, 2, 22: “zizyphum,Pall. Apr. 4: “palmas,id. Oct. 12: “(vitem) Narbonicam,Plin. 14, 3, 4, § 43; Cato ap. Plin. 14, 4, 5, § 46.—
B. Transf. (cf. I. B. supra): extra vallum stili caeci, mirabilem in modum consiti, set, Auct. B. Afr. 31.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (16):
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 10, 24.5
    • Vergil, Georgics, 2.38
    • Plautus, Menaechmi, 5.2
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 2.211
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.1107
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 14.43
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 14.46
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 2.52
    • Cicero, De Senectute, 17
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 5, 10.37
    • Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum, 53
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 3.4.2
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 5.5.6
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 6.5.14
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 7.2.22
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 7.4.26
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