saginabat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →sagino, saginare, saginavi, saginatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
fatten (animals) for eating; feed lavishly, stuff;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
de Clementia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...oderat quam servi sui, quod muraenas sanguine humano saginabat et eos, qui se aliquid offenderant, in vivarium, quid..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...panemque semissem ponebat supra torum, ac nausia recusantem saginabat. Quo admonitus officio Trimalchio Scylacem iussit adduci "praesidium domus..."