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pābŭlum , i, n. from the root pa, whence also pa-sco,
I.food, nourishment.
I. Lit.
A. Of men (only poet.): “dura mundi,Lucr. 5, 944: “dira (of the human food of Polyphemus),Val. Fl. 4, 105; Stat. Th. 12, 566.—
II. Trop., food, nourishment, sustenance (class.): Acheruntis pabulum, food for Acheron (said of one who deserves to die), Plaut. Cas. 2, 1, 11: “piscibus in alto credo praehibent pabulum,id. Rud. 2, 6, 29: “amoris,Lucr. 4, 1063: est enim animorum ingeniorumque naturale quoddam quasi pabulum consideratio contemplatioque naturae, Cic. Ac. 2, 41, 127: “studii atque doctrinae,id. Sen. 14, 49: “dederatque gravi nova pabula morbo,Ov. M. 8, 876.—Of manure: “pabula fesso praebere novali,Col. 10, 84; 2, 5, 1.—Of nourishment for the mind: “quasi pabula quaedam animo ad sublimiora scandendi conquirens,Amm. 14, 5, 6.
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    • Caesar, Gallic War, 7.18
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 7.14
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 8.10
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8.876
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 13.943
    • Plautus, Rudens, 2.6
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 12.475
    • Caesar, Civil War, 3.58
    • Plautus, Casina, 2.1
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.1063
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 2.364
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 2.875
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    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 5.944
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    • Cornelius Nepos, Eumenes, 8
    • Cicero, De Senectute, 14
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 4.105
    • Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum, 90
    • Ovid, Ex Ponto, 1.2
    • Statius, Thebias, 12
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 2.5.1
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