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|lshtext=<b>sĕgĕs</b>: ĕtis, f. etym. dub.; perh. [[root]] [[sag]]-, to [[fill]], [[feed]]; Gr. [[σάττω]];> Lat. [[sagmen]], q. v.,<br /><b>I</b> a cornfield.<br /><b>I</b> Lit. (freq. and [[class]].): partem dimidiam (stercoris) in segetem, ubi [[pabulum]] seras, invehito, [[Cato]], R. R. 29; cf. id. ib. 36: segetes subigere aratris, Cic. Fragm. ap. Non. 395, 15; [[Cato]], R. R. 37; 155; 5, 4 (v. [[defrugo]]); id. Fragm. ap. Gell. 13, 17, 1; Varr. R. R. 1, 6, 5; 1, 29, 1; 1, 50, 1 sq.; 1, 69, 1; 2, 7, 11 al.; Lucil., Att., and Varr. ap. Non. 395, 24 sq.; Poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 2, 5, 13; 1, 28, 69: segetes secundae et uberes, Cic. Or. 15, 48; id. Sen. 15, 54, id. Verr. 2, 3, 8, § 20: cohortes frumentatum in proximas segetes misit, Caes. B. G. 6, 36, 2; Tib. 1, 3, 61; Verg. G. 1, 47 Heyne; 2, 267; 4, 129: segetes occat [[tibi]] mox frumenta daturas, Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 161; id. C. 1, 31, 4; Col. 2, 14, 2 et saep.— Comically: stimulorum [[seges]], a cudgelfield, Plaut. Aul. 1, 1, 6.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf., the [[standing]] [[corn]], growing [[corn]], [[crop]] in a [[field]] ([[class]]., [[but]] not freq. [[till]] [[after]] the Aug. per.: est eorum (rusticorum) gemmare [[vitis]], laetas esse segetes, etc., Cic. Or. 24, 81; id. de Or. 3, 38, 155, is cited, [[merely]] by [[way]] of [[example]], as used by the rustici; syn. [[messis]]): [[seges]] grandissima [[atque]] optima, Varr. R. R. 1, 52, 1: culto stat [[seges]] alta [[solo]], Ov. A. A. 3, 102: [[seges]] [[prope]] jam matura, Caes. B. C. 3, 81 fin. (cf. [[infra]], Liv. 2, 5): [[antequam]] [[seges]] in articulum [[eat]], Col. 2, 12, 9: [[uligo]] segetem enecat, id. 2, 9, 9: et segetis canae stantes percurrere aristas, Ov. M. 10, 655: producit [[fruges]] et segetem imbecillem, Sen. Q. N. 2, 6, 6; id. Ben. 6, 4, 4.—Plur.: segetes Collibus et campis habere, Lucr. 5, 1371: [[quid]] faciat laetas segetes, Verg. G. 1, 1: adultae segetes, Col. 2, 9, 10: segetes laetas excitare, id. 2, 15, 4: laetas segetes afferre, id. 2, 17, 3.—With gen.: [[seges]] farris matura messi, Liv. 2, 5: lini et avenae, Verg. G. 1, 77: leguminum, Col. 2, 13, 3.—Poet., of men springing up [[out]] of the [[ground]]: crescit [[seges]] clipeata virorum, Ov. M. 3, 110; 7, 30; id. H. 12, 59 al.—Of a [[multitude]] of things [[crowded]] [[together]], a [[crop]], etc.: confixum [[ferrea]] texit Telorum [[seges]], Verg. A. 3, 46; cf. id. ib. 7, 526, and 12, 663; so, ferri, Claud. in Ruf. 2, 391; cf.: Mavortia ferri, id. III. Cons. Hon. 135: hystricis, Aus. Idyll. 2 (Claud. Hystr. 12): aëna (hydraulici organi), Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 316: [[seges]] osculationis, Cat. 48, 6.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> (Acc. to I. A.) A [[field]], [[ground]], [[soil]] ([[rare]] [[but]] [[class]].): [[quod]] [[beneficium]] [[haud]] sterili in segete, rex, te obsesse intellegis, Att. ap. Non. 395, 27: fert casiam non culta [[seges]], Tib. 1, 3, 61: ubi prima paretur Arboribus [[seges]], Verg. G. 2, 267: [[quid]] odisset Clodium [[Milo]] segetem ac materiem suae gloriae? Cic. Mil. 13, 35; cf.: videtur esse criminum [[seges]], maledictorum [[materia]], Arn. 5, 172.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> (Acc. to I. B.) A [[crop]], [[fruit]], [[produce]], [[result]], [[profit]] ([[poet]]. and [[very]] [[rare]]): [[fertile]] [[pectus]] habes, interque Helicona colentes Uberius nulli provenit ista [[seges]], Ov. P. 4, 2, 12: quae [[inde]] [[seges]], Juv. 7, 103: [[inde]] [[seges]] scelerum, Prud. Ham. 258.