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.—
B. Of animals, food, fodder (very freq. and class.): “bubus pabulum parare,” Cato, R. R. 54, 1: “pabulo pecoris student (Numidae),” Sall. J. 90, 1: “secare pabulum,” Caes. B. G. 7, 14: “supportare,” id. B. C. 3, 58: “consumere,” id. B. G. 7, 18: “conquirere,” Hirt. B. G. 8, 10: “comparare,” Nep. Eum. 8: “hirundo Pabula parva legens,” Verg. A. 12, 475: “pabula decerpere,” Ov. M. 13, 943: “pabula carpsit ovis,” id. F. 4, 750; id. P. 1, 2, 122: “praebere feris,” Lucr. 4, 685; 5, 991: “pabula laeta,” id. 2, 364; 875: “luna feras ducit ad pabula,” Petr. 100: “viciam conserere in pabulum,” Col. 11, 2, 71: “cervi noctu procedunt ad pabula,” Plin. 8, 32, 50, § 117: “subus serpentes in pabulo sunt,” id. 11, 53, 115, § 279: “ager frugum pabulique laetus,” i. e. food for men and beasts, Sall. H. 2, 91 Dietsch; id. J. 90, 1.—
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.