I.corn, grain (class.; in sing. usually of corn harvested): “Julianus scribit: frumentum id esse, quod arista in se teneat, recte Gallum definisse: lupinum vero et fabam fruges potius dici, quia non arista sed siliqua continentur, quae Servius apud Alfenum in frumento contineri putat,” Dig. 50, 16, 77: sunt prima earum (frugum) genera: frumenta, ut triticum, hordeum; “et legumina, ut faba, cicer,” kinds of corn, Plin. 18, 7, 9, § 48: “in segetibus frumentum, in quo culmus extulit spicam, etc.,” Varr. R. R. 1, 48, 1: “triticum vel alia frumenta,” Col. 8, 9, 2: “triticeum,” Mart. 13, 12: “Galli turpe esse ducunt frumentum manu quaerere,” Cic. Rep. 3, 9: “frumentum ex agris in loca tuta comportatur,” id. Att. 5, 18, 2: “ut in itinere copia frumenti suppeteret,” Caes. B. G. 1, 3, 1; 1, 48, 2: “ingens frumenti acervus,” Hor. S. 2, 3, 111; 1, 1, 45; Liv. 2, 52; 21, 48; 23, 12; 23, 21 et saep.: tessera frumenti, a ticket giving the holder a share in the public distribution of corn, Juv. 7, 174; cf. Dict. of Antiq. pp. 580 sq., 864.—In plur. (esp. of standing grain: “frumenta sunt proprie omnia quae aristas habent,” Isid. Orig. 17, 3): bona, Cato ap. Gell. 13, 17, 1: “luxuriosa,” Cic. Or. 24, 81: “non modo frumenta in agris matura non erant, sed, etc.,” Caes. B. G. 1, 16, 2; 1, 40, 11; 3, 9, 8 et saep.: “frumenta autumni matura in agris,” Sall. H. 3, 67, 20; Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 72; 2, 1, 140; Liv. 23, 32; 25, 15; 31, 2; 33, 6 et saep.—
II. Transf.: frumenta, the small seeds or grains of figs, Plin. 15, 19, 21, § 82; 17, 27, 44, § 256.
