verb
per-pasco
Meaning
- to graze
per-pasco, pāvi, pastum, 3, v. n.,
I. to graze, pasture.
I. Lit., Varr. L. L. 5, § 95 Müll.—
II. Transf.: perpascor, ci, 3, v. dep., to lay waste, devastate: fluvius perpascitur agros, Sev. Aetn. 489.—Hence, perpastus, a, um, P. a., well fed, in good condition:
canis, Phaedr. 3, 7, 2.