pancarpus

pancarpĭus and pancarpus, a, um, adj., = pankarpios and pankarpos, consisting or composed of all kinds of fruits.

I.

Lit.:

pancarpiae dicuntur coronae ex vario genere florum factae,

Fest. p. 220 Müll.:

Jesum cognominant Soterem et Christum... Quam propius fuit de Atticis historiis pancarpiam vocari (alluding to the olive-branch, ornamented with all sorts of fruits, which was carried about by boys in Athens on a certain festival),

Tert. ad Val. 12.—

II.

Transf., of all sorts:

nomine pancarpi, qui in ludicris muneribus edi solet, propter omnium generum, quae inerant, bestias, exagitatis Arcam Noe,

Aug. adv. Secund. 23.