CORN Copy link • CORN 1. frumentum (general term): fruges (as it stands ripe in the field, or is reaped): annona (as brought into market and sold). Corn of this year, frumentum hornotinum: an ear of corn, spica frumentaria: the exporting of corn, *frumenti exportatio: distribution of corn, frumentatio: a heap of corn, frumenti acervus: abounding in corn, copiosus a frumento or a secali (general term where there is corn in abundance): terra frumento of secali ferax (rich corn land). Relating to corn, producing corn, frumentarius (e.g., leges; ager): the price of corn, annona, frugum pretium or pretia (general term Tac., Ann., 2, 59, 1): the present price of corn, haec annona: the former price, vetus annona: the price of corn is altered, annona commutata est (general term): is rising, annona incenditur: is falling, annona levatur: the fluctuations in the prices of corn, annonae varietas: to reduce the price of corn, annonam levare or laxare; frugum pretia levare: to raise it, annonam incendere, excandefacere, excande facere et incendere: annonam flagellare: a want of corn, rei frumentariae inopia, or angustiae, or difficultas; frumenti penuria; also (the words are found in this connection and order), annonae difficultas et rei frumentariae inopia: there is a scarcity of corn, annona laboratur: to be in want of corn, or to suffer from the want of it, re frumentaria angusta uti, re frumentaria laborare: to supply the want of corn, rei frumentariae mederi; rem frumentariam expedire: a supply of corn, copia rei frumentariae: to procure a large supply of corn, maximam frumenti vim comparare: anybody’s supply of corn is getting very low, re frumentaria aliquis anguste utitur; res frumentaria aliquem deficere coepit (begins to run low). Corn fetches no price, annona pretium nou habet: to keep back their corn, frumentum (or annonam) comprimere (for the purpose of raising prices). A speculator in corn, qui annonam flagellat (incendit, excandefacit); qui iniquo fenore frumentum vendit (all = one who tries unfairly to raise prices). The crops (of corn) were very good this year, magnum proventum frumenti hic annus attulit (after Plin., Ep., 1, 13, 7). The crops of corn had been very bad that year, anno frumentum angustius provenerat (Caes.): Sicily was a very rich corn country, Sicilia erat frumento feracissima. A corn-field, ager frumentarius (general term): ager secali, tritico, etc., consitus (with rye, wheat, etc.). Good corn-land, terra, ager, etc., frumento ferax: the tithe of corn, decuma frumenti (Vid: Cic., Verr., 3, 70, in.). Indian corn., *zea mays (Linn.). Corn on the foot, clavus pedis or clavus only (in clavus pedis, qui vulgo morticinus appellatur, Plin., 22, 23, 49, morticinus was, probably, a bad kind of corn): thymium (a wart-like corn that often splits at the top, and sometimes bleeds; nascuntur - vel in palmis, vel in inferioribus pedum partibus, Cels., 5, 28, 14): myrmecium (μυρμήκιον, lower, harder, more painful, and with deeper roots than the preceding; also in inferioribus partibus pedum, Cels., ib.). to cure, extract, scrape a corn, clavum sanare (Plin., Cels.); extrahere (Plin.), excidere (Cels.), superradere (Plin.; but the last only inparticiple superrasus): to remove a corn, clavum tollere (Cels.). To cure a corn with caustic, clavum medicamentis adurere (Cels.): a corn dies off, emoritur (Cels.). A corn should be kept well scraped, clavum subinde radere commodissimum est (Cels., ; who also uses, circumpurgare). 2. v. salem aspergere alicui rei.