I.a stuffing, cramming, fattening, feeding, feasting.
I. Lit.
A. In abstr. (class.): “anserum,” Varr. R. R. 3, 10, 1; Col. 6, 27, 9; 8, 14, 11: “gallinarum,” Plin. 10, 50, 71, § 140: “cochlearum,” id. 9, 56, 82, § 174: vaccarum. Vulg. Ecclus. 38, 27: “dies noctesque estur, Bibitur, neque quisquam parsimoniam adhibet: sagina plane est,” Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 79: “in saginam se conicere,” id. Trin. 3, 2, 96: qui multitudinem illam non auctoritate sed sagina tenebat, * Cic. Fl. 7, 17; cf. Tac. H. 2, 71.—
B. In concr.
1. Food, nourishment (postAug.).
a. Lit.: “gladiatoria sagina,” Tac. H. 2, 88; cf.“, of gladiators' food,” Prop. 4 (5), 8, 25. “temulentus et sagina gravis,” Tac. H. 1, 62: “stomachum laxare saginae,” Juv. 4, 67: “sagina viva,” i. e. small fish with which larger ones were fed, Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 7; cf. Plin. 9, 6, 5, § 14: “ad saginam idonea,” Col. 8, 9, 4: “ferarum,” Suet. Calig. 27: “minuere saginam,” Nemes. Cyn. 166: “ad saginam pristinam revocare,” to natural food, Veg. 2, 45, 3: “bestiarum,” App. M. p. 148, 27.—
b. Transf.: “herbae viridis coma dulciore saginā roris aut fluminis,” rich nourishment, Pall. 7, 3 Mai: “quemadmodum forensibus certaminibus exercitatos et quasi militantes reficit ac reparat haec velut sagina dicendi,” nourishment of oratory, Quint. 10, 5, 17.—*
2. A fatted animal: “este, effercite vos, saginam caedite,” kill the fatted beast, Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 62.—
II. Meton., fatness produced by much eating, corpulence (postAug.): “saginam corporis ex nimiā luxuriā contraxit,” Just. 21, 2, 1: “sagina ventris non homini sed beluae similis,” id. 38, 8, 9: “qui colorem fuco et verum robur inani saginā mentiuntur,” Quint. 2, 15, 25: “nimio tendis mole saginam,” Aus. Ephem. 1, 8: “ursam quae ceteris saginā corporis praevalebat,” App. M. 4, p. 149, 7.
