pascuus

pascŭus, a, um, adj. [pasco], of or for pasture, grazing (class.):

ager,

Plaut. Truc. 1, 2, 47:

agri, arvi et arbusti et pascui,

Cic. Rep. 5, 2, 3:

rura,

Lucr. 5, 1248:

silva,

Dig. 50, 16, 30; cf. in the foll.—

II.

Subst.

A.

pascŭum, i, n., a pasture (usu. in plur.; cf. pabulum).

1.

Lit.:

ab viridi pascuo,

Varr. R. R. 2, 11, 2:

ne esuriens mittatur in pascuum,

Col. 8, 14, 8:

rus quod pascuo caret,

id. 7, 1, 1; Plin. 8, 47, 72, § 189.—

(β).

Plur.:

in censorum pascuis,

Cic. Agr. 1, 1, 3:

gregem in pascua mittere,

Verg. G. 3, 323:

pascua laeta,

Ov. F. 4, 476:

pascua herbosa,

id. M. 2, 689:

Lucana,

Hor. Epod. 1, 28:

laeta Clitumni pascua,

Juv. 12, 13:

exire in pascua,

Plin. 10, 44, 61, § 126:

etiam nunc in tabulis censoriis pascua dicuntur omnia, ex quibus populus reditus habet, quia diu hoc solum vectigal fuerat,

Plin. 18, 3, 3, § 11.—

2.

Transf., food (post-class.):

pascua jurulenta,

App. M. 2, p. 117, 31.—

B.

pascŭa, ae, f. (sc. terra), a pasture (postclass.), Tert. Apol. 22, Vulg. Joel, 1, 18; id. Ezech. 34, 31.