• harvest: messis, is, f. (strictly the act of reaping; meton., the crops reaped): you must begin h. before ..., ante messis facienda est, quam ..., Col. 2, 21, ad init.: Varr.: there had been a failure in the h., m. nulla fuerat, Cic. Att. 5, 21, 6: enormous h.s, immensae m., Virg. Fig.: the h. of the Sullan period, Sullani temporis m., Cic. Par. 6, 2, 46. Phr. the h. being over, demessis frumentis, cf. Caes. B. G. 4, 32. h.-time, tempus demetendis fructibus [accommodatum], Cic. Sen. 19, 71. See also crop, produce.