I.a large inferior kind of fig.
I. Lit.: “pingues mariscae,” Col. 10, 415: “fatua,” Mart. 7, 25, 7; “in apposition with ficus,” Cato, R. R. 8 (also in Plin. 15, 18, 19, § 72); so, mariscae fici, Varr. ap. Non. 550, 31.—*
II. Transf., the piles: “tumidae mariscae,” Juv. 2, 13.