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spīcĕus , a, um, adj. spica,
I.consisting of ears of corn (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): “corona,Tib. 1, 1, 16 (24); Hor. C. S. 30; Plin. 18, 2, 2, § 6; Sabin. Massur. ap. Gell. 6, 7, 8; cf. “serta,Tib. 1, 10, 22; Ov. M. 2, 28; 10, 433; id. Am. 3, 10, 36; Claud. B. Gild. 136: “messis,” i. e. of grain, Verg. G. 1, 314: “frux, Aus. Monos. de Cibis: coma,” i. e. the ears, Prop. 4 (5), 2, 14.
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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 2.28
    • Vergil, Georgics, 1.314
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 18.6
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 6.7.8
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