I.a cornfield.
I. Lit. (freq. and class.): “partem dimidiam (stercoris) in segetem, ubi pabulum seras, invehito,” Cato, R. R. 29; cf. id. ib. 36: segetes subigere aratris, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 395, 15; Cato, R. R. 37; 155; 5, 4 (v. defrugo); id. Fragm. ap. Gell. 13, 17, 1; Varr. R. R. 1, 6, 5; 1, 29, 1; 1, 50, 1 sq.; 1, 69, 1; 2, 7, 11 al.; Lucil., Att., and Varr. ap. Non. 395, 24 sq.; Poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 5, 13; 1, 28, 69: “segetes secundae et uberes,” Cic. Or. 15, 48; id. Sen. 15, 54, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 8, § 20: “cohortes frumentatum in proximas segetes misit,” Caes. B. G. 6, 36, 2; Tib. 1, 3, 61; Verg. G. 1, 47 Heyne; 2, 267; “4, 129: segetes occat tibi mox frumenta daturas,” Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 161; id. C. 1, 31, 4; Col. 2, 14, 2 et saep.— “Comically: stimulorum seges,” a cudgelfield, Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 6.—
B. Transf., the standing corn, growing corn, crop in a field (class., but not freq. till after the Aug. per.: “est eorum (rusticorum) gemmare vitis, laetas esse segetes, etc.,” Cic. Or. 24, 81; id. de Or. 3, 38, 155, is cited, merely by way of example, as used by the rustici; “syn. messis): seges grandissima atque optima,” Varr. R. R. 1, 52, 1: “culto stat seges alta solo,” Ov. A. A. 3, 102: “seges prope jam matura,” Caes. B. C. 3, 81 fin. (cf. infra, Liv. 2, 5): “antequam seges in articulum eat,” Col. 2, 12, 9: “uligo segetem enecat,” id. 2, 9, 9: “et segetis canae stantes percurrere aristas,” Ov. M. 10, 655: “producit fruges et segetem imbecillem,” Sen. Q. N. 2, 6, 6; id. Ben. 6, 4, 4.—Plur.: “segetes Collibus et campis habere,” Lucr. 5, 1371: “quid faciat laetas segetes,” Verg. G. 1, 1: “adultae segetes,” Col. 2, 9, 10: “segetes laetas excitare,” id. 2, 15, 4: “laetas segetes afferre,” id. 2, 17, 3.—With gen.: “seges farris matura messi,” Liv. 2, 5: “lini et avenae,” Verg. G. 1, 77: “leguminum,” Col. 2, 13, 3.—Poet., of men springing up out of the ground: “crescit seges clipeata virorum,” Ov. M. 3, 110; 7, 30; id. H. 12, 59 al.—Of a multitude of things crowded together, a crop, etc.: “confixum ferrea texit Telorum seges,” Verg. A. 3, 46; cf. id. ib. 7, 526, and 12, 663; so, “ferri,” Claud. in Ruf. 2, 391; cf.: “Mavortia ferri,” id. III. Cons. Hon. 135: “hystricis,” Aus. Idyll. 2 (Claud. Hystr. 12): “aëna (hydraulici organi),” Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 316: “seges osculationis,” Cat. 48, 6.—
II. Trop.
A. (Acc. to I. A.) A field, ground, soil (rare but class.): quod beneficium haud sterili in segete, rex, te obsesse intellegis, Att. ap. Non. 395, 27: “fert casiam non culta seges,” Tib. 1, 3, 61: “ubi prima paretur Arboribus seges,” Verg. G. 2, 267: “quid odisset Clodium Milo segetem ac materiem suae gloriae?” Cic. Mil. 13, 35; cf.: “videtur esse criminum seges, maledictorum materia,” Arn. 5, 172.—