com-pasco
I.
perf., pastum, ĕre, v. n. and a.
I.
To feed together, feed in common: si compascuus ager est, jus est compascere, Cic. Top. 3, 12; Dig. 8, 5, 20.—
II.
To feed, pasture, in gen.: Brundisiana (ostrea), Plin. 32, 6, 21, § 61.—
B.
Pregn.
1.
To consume by feeding, to eat: pabulum, Varr. R. R. 2, prooem. § 5; so in pass., id. ib. 1, 53.—
2.
To drive away, destroy by feeding: famem, Plin. 9, 54, 79, § 169.