sagina
καλῶς γέ μου τὸν υἱὸν ὦ Στιλβωνίδη εὑρὼν ἀπιόντ' ἀπὸ γυμνασίου λελουμένον οὐκ ἔκυσας, οὐ προσεῖπας, οὐ προσηγάγου, οὐκ ὠρχιπέδισας, ὢν ἐμοὶ πατρικὸς φίλος → Ah! Is this well done, Stilbonides? You met my son coming from the bath after the gymnasium and you neither spoke to him, nor kissed him, nor took him with you, nor ever once felt his balls. Would anyone call you an old friend of mine?
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
săgīna: ae, f. kindr. with σάττω,> to stuff full, to cram; v. sagmen,
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.
