• HARVEST

1. messis (PROP., the time of harvest, and the crops gathered in): quaestus: fructus (IMPROP., profit, gain). An abundant harvest, messis opima; ubertas in fructibus percipiendis (abundance of crops). To be engaged in harvest, messem facere: harvest-work, opera messoria: to reap the harvest, messem facere (general term); metere, demetere (of reaping the corn): no harvest was reaped, messis nulla fuerat: to reap a harvest of anything (IMPROP.), fructum ex aliqua re capere, percipere; fructum alicujus rei ferre: of applause, gratitude, etc., laudem, gratiam ferre.

2. v. Vid: “to reap a HARVEST.” HARVEST-HOME, feriae messium (with the ancients, the time after the harvest, when the husbandman rested from his labors, and performed sacred rites): ☞ ambarvalia was the consecration of fields, when an animal was brought and offered for the fruits of the field.