FEED Copy link • FEEDcibum praebere alicui (general term for giving him food): cibo juvare aliquem (to refresh him with food): cibare aliquem (especially poultry and children; the word is post-Augustan): pabulum dare alicui (especially to larger animals, as oxen, etc.): pascere (especially to feed sheep, goats, swine; both in the sense of driving them to pasture and watching them there, and also of keeping so many; also of feeding persons [olusculis nos pascere, Cic.], but with reference to feeding them like cattle; and ofa district feeding so many, = supplying them with provisions; also of becoming the food of, against one’s will; e.g., aliquis or aliquid pascet corvos, tineas, etc.). To feed with one’s own hand, cibare manu sua (Suet., Tib., 72): to feed well, largo pastu sustentare: birds feed their unfledged young, aves infirmis fetibus cibos ore suo collatos partiuntur (Quint. 2, 6, 7): to feed a child, infanti cibum in os ingerere (Cic., De Or., 2, 39, 162). IMPROPR., nutrire (e.g., amorem, Ov.; ignes foliis etc., Ov.): alere (e.g., a war, a contest, love, rage, etc.): sustentare (to support; e.g., a war, anybody’s vices, etc.): augere: alere et augere (e.g., desiderium, to increase it; opposed to exstinguere): fovere (e.g., dolores suos; alicujus spem). To feed one’s eyes with anything, oculos pascere aliqua re; fructum capere oculis ex re: dare oculis epulas (comedy). Support, supply with provisions, etc., alere: pascere (poetical): sustentare: alere et sustentare: victum praebere alicui: nutricari (IMPROP.; omniaque [mundus] sicut membra et partes sui nutricatur et continet, Cic., N.D., 2, 34). [Vid: SUPPORT.] Depasture (as in “to feed your meadows,” Woodward), depascere: immisso pecore depascere (Ulp.). To feed a lake, river, etc., in lacum or flumen influere. INTRANS., Live on, vesci aliqua re (the proper word; carne, lacte): vivere aliqua re (to live on; de aliqua re is of the means by which a livelihood is gained): ali aliqua re (e.g., lacte). Pasture (of cattle), pasci and (poetical) pascere (Verg.): pabulari (to eat fodder). IMPROPR., pasci aliqua re (e.g., bibliotheca alicujus, etc.; of delighting in it).