I.of or for pasture, grazing (class.): “ager,” Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 47: “agri, arvi et arbusti et pascui,” Cic. Rep. 5, 2, 3: “rura,” Lucr. 5, 1248: “silva,” Dig. 50, 16, 30; cf. in the foll.—
II. Subst.
A. pascŭum , i, n., a pasture (usu. in plur.; cf. pabulum).
1. Lit.: “ab viridi pascuo,” Varr. R. R. 2, 11, 2: “ne esuriens mittatur in pascuum,” Col. 8, 14, 8: “rus quod pascuo caret,” id. 7, 1, 1; Plin. 8, 47, 72, § 189.—
(β).
Plur.: “in censorum pascuis,” Cic. Agr. 1, 1, 3: “gregem in pascua mittere,” Verg. G. 3, 323: “pascua laeta,” Ov. F. 4, 476: “pascua herbosa,” id. M. 2, 689: “Lucana,” Hor. Epod. 1, 28: “laeta Clitumni pascua,” Juv. 12, 13: “exire in pascua,” Plin. 10, 44, 61, § 126: “etiam nunc in tabulis censoriis pascua dicuntur omnia, ex quibus populus reditus habet, quia diu hoc solum vectigal fuerat,” Plin. 18, 3, 3, § 11.—
B. pascŭa , ae, f. (sc. terra), a pasture (postclass.), Tert. Apol. 22, Vulg. Joel, 1, 18; id. Ezech. 34, 31.
