harvest Copy link • 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.
HARVEST Copy link • 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.