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Săcae (Săgae), ārum, m., = Σάκαι, a people of Northern Asia, a part of the Scythians, Mel. 3, 7, 1; Plin. 6, 17, 19, § 50; Curt. 5, 9, 5; 7, 4, 6; Cat. 11, 6.
In sing.: Săces (Σάκης), Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 157.

† săcŏpēnĭum, ii, n., = σαγάπηνον, the gum-like juice of an umbelliferous plant, Plin. 19, 8, 52, § 167; 20, 18, 75, § 197; called also, from the Greek, sagapenon, id. 12, 25, 56, § 126; 19, 3, 15, § 40 (Jahn, sacopenium in both passages).

1. sāga, ae, v. sāgus.

2. săga, ae, v. săgum init.

săgācĭtas, ātis, f. [sagax], keenness of perception, acuteness of the senses, sagacity.

  1. I. Lit.
    1. A. Keenness of scent in dogs: canum tam incredibilis ad investigandum sagacitas narium, Cic. N. D. 2, 63, 158; so, canum, Plin. 9, 30, 48, § 92.
      1. * 2. Transf., of hunters: ut domitas feras mentita sagacitate colligerent, Plin. Pan. 81, 3.
    2. * B. Keenness, acuteness of the other senses: sensuum, Sen. Ep. 95, 58.
  2. II. Trop., intellectual keenness of perception, acuteness, shrewdness, sagacity (good prose; syn.: sollertia, acumen): utrum admonitus ac tentatus, an, quā est ipse sagacitate in his rebus, sine duce ullo, sine indice, pervenerit ad hanc improbitatem, nescio, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 41, § 105: tuam tantam fuisse sagacitatem, id. ib. 2, 4, 12, § 29: erat eā sagacitate, ut decipi non posset, Nep. Alc. 5, 2: consilii, Val. Max. 7, 3, 3: Hipparchi sagacitate compertum est, lunae defectum, etc., Plin. 2, 13, 10, § 57.

săgācĭter, adv., v. sagax fin.<

Sagalessos (Sagalass-), i, f., an important town of Pisidia, whose ruins are found near the mod. Aghtasan, Plin. 5, 27, 24, § 94.
Hence, Sagalassēnus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Sagalessos: ager, Liv. 38, 15, 9.

săgăna, ae, f., acc. to Prisc. p. 622, = saga, a female diviner or soothsayer; a wise woman, witch; but occurs only as a nom. prop. of a witch, Hor. Epod. 5, 25; id. S. 1, 8, 25 and 48.

Saganos, i, m., = Σαγανός, a small river of Carmania, Plin. 6, 25, 28, § 110 (Jahn, Saccanas); called also Saganis, Amm. 23, 6, 49.

săgăpēnon, i, v. sacopenium.

1. Săgăris, is; Săgărĭus, ii; Să-gĭārĭus, ii; and Sangărĭus, ii, m., a river in Phrygia and Bitnynia, which empties into the Propontis, now the Sacari or Sacaria.
Form Sagaris, Ov. P. 4, 10, 47; Mart. Cap. 6, § 687 sq.: Sagarius, Sol. 43, § 1: Sagiarius, v. 1. Plin. 6, 1, 1, § 4: Sangarius, Liv. 38, 18, 8.
Hence,

  1. A. Săgărītis, ĭdis, adj. f., of Sagaris: nympha, a nymph beloved by Attis, Ov. F. 4, 229.
  2. B. San-gărĭus, a, um, adj., of Sagaris: puer, i.e. Attis, Stat. S. 3, 4, 41.

2. Săgăris, is, m., the name of a Trojan, Verg. A. 9, 575.

1. săgārĭus, a, um, adj. [sagum], of or belonging to a mantle (sagum; post-class.): negotiatio, Dig. 14, 4, 5, § 15; 17, 2, 52: NEGOCIATOR SAGARIVS, a dealer in mantles, Inscr. Orell. 4251; also absol.: SAGARIVS, ib. 283, 3472, and 4723.

2. Săgărĭus, v. 1. Sagaris.

săgātus, a, um, adj. [sagum].

  1. I. Lit., clothed in or having on a sagum, Cic. Font. 11; id. Phil. 14, 1, 2; id. Fragm. ap. Non. 538, 27 (opp. togati); Mart. 6, 11, 8: milites, Capitol. Ant. Phil. 27.
  2. II. Transf., made of thick stuff, such as is proper for mantles: cuculli, Col. 11, 1, 21; and perh. also id. 1, 8, 9.

săgax, ācis, adj. [sagio; cf. salax, from salio], of quick perception, whose senses are acute, sagacious (class.).

  1. I. Lit.
    1. A. Chiefly of the acute sense of smelling in dogs, keen-scented: sagax Nasum habet, Plaut. Curc. 1, 2, 17: canes, Cic. Div. 1, 31, 65; Ov. M. 3, 207: catulus, id. R. Am. 201.
      With gen.: naris sagax, Luc. 7, 829.
      Poet.: virtus venandi, Ov. Hal. 76.
    2. B. Of other senses: sollicitive canes canibusve sagacior anser, Ov. M. 11, 599: palatum in gustu sagacissimum, Plin. 8, 37, 35, § 132.
  2. II. Trop., intellectually quick, keen, acute, shrewd, sagacious (syn.: sollers, perspicax, acutus, subtilis).
          1. (α) Absol.: (homo) animal hoc providum, sagax, multiplex, acutum, memor, plenum rationis et consilii, Cic. Leg. 1, 7, 22; cf. id. Fin. 2, 14, 45: mens, id. Tusc. 5, 23, 67; Lucr. 5, 420; 1, 1021: animus, id. 2, 840; 4, 913: ratio, id. 1, 131; 1, 369: homo sagax et astutus, Mart. 12, 87, 4: modo circumspectus et sagax, modo inconsultus ac praeceps, considerate, Suet. Claud. 15: mire sagaces fallere hospites, Hor. C. 2, 5, 22: curae, id. ib. 4, 4, 75.
            Of a soothsayer, knowing the future, Ov. M. 8, 316.
          2. (β) Ad aliquid (class.): ad suspicandum sagacissimus, Cic. Cat. 1, 8, 19: ad haec pericula perspicienda, Plancus ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 23, 4.
          3. (γ) With gen. (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): utilium sagax rerum et divina futuri, Hor. A. P. 218: fibrarum et pennae divinarumque flammarum, skilled in, Sil. 3, 344; cf. in sup.: prodigiorum (Joseph), Just. 36, 2, 8; and: rerum naturae, Col. praef., § 22 (with non ignarus).
          4. (δ) With in or simple abl. (post-Aug.): vir in conjecturis sagacissimus, Just. 1, 9, 14: civitas rimandis offensis sagax, Tac. H. 4, 11.
            (ρ) Inf.: sagax quondam ventura videre, Ov. M. 5, 146.
            Hence, adv.: să-gācĭter.
        1. a. Quickly, sharply, keenly, with quickness of scent, with a fine sense of smell: canes si advenientem sagaciter odorantur, Col. 7, 12, 7.
          Comp., Cic. Att. 6, 4, 3: vultures sagacius odorantur, Plin. 10, 69, 88, § 191; Hor. Epod. 12, 4.
          Sup., Cic. de Or. 2, 44, 186; Plin. 11, 37, 50, § 137.
        2. b. Trop., acutely, shrewdly, accurately, sagaciously: sagaciter pervestigare, Cic. de Or. 1, 51, 223: intueri, Quint. 2, 8, 4; Liv. 27, 28: perspicere naturam alicujus, Suet. Tib. 57 al.

sagda, ae, f., a precious stone of a leekgreen color, Plin. 37, 10, 67, § 181.

† săgēna, ae, f., = σαγήνη,

  1. I. a large fishing-net, a seine, Manil. 5, 678 (cf. Dig. 47, 10, 13, § 7); Vulg. Ezech. 26, 5; 47, 10; id. Matt. 13, 47.
  2. II. Transf., in gen., a snare, Vulg. Eccl. 7, 27; id. Ezech. 12, 13.

†† sagēnon, i, n. [Indian], a kind of opal found in India, Plin. 37, 9, 46, § 130 (al. sangenon).

săgīna, ae, f. [kindr. with σάττω, to stuff full, to cram; v. sagmen], a stuffing, cramming, fattening, feeding, feasting.

  1. I. Lit.
    1. A. In abstr. (class.): anserum, Varr. R. R. 3, 10, 1; Col. 6, 27, 9; 8, 14, 11: gallinarum, Plin. 10, 50, 71, § 140: cochlearum, id. 9, 56, 82, § 174: vaccarum. Vulg. Ecclus. 38, 27: dies noctesque estur, Bibitur, neque quisquam parsimoniam adhibet: sagina plane est, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 79: in saginam se conicere, id. Trin. 3, 2, 96: qui multitudinem illam non auctoritate sed sagina tenebat, * Cic. Fl. 7, 17; cf. Tac. H. 2, 71.
    2. B. In concr.
      1. 1. Food, nourishment (postAug.).
        1. a. Lit.: gladiatoria sagina, Tac. H. 2, 88; cf., of gladiators’ food, Prop. 4 (5), 8, 25: temulentus et sagina gravis, Tac. H. 1, 62: stomachum laxare saginae, Juv. 4, 67: sagina viva, i. e. small fish with which larger ones were fed, Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 7; cf. Plin. 9, 6, 5, § 14: ad saginam idonea, Col. 8, 9, 4: ferarum, Suet. Calig. 27: minuere saginam, Nemes. Cyn. 166: ad saginam pristinam revocare, to natural food, Veg. 2, 45, 3: bestiarum, App. M. p. 148, 27.
        2. b. Transf.: herbae viridis coma dulciore saginā roris aut fluminis, rich nourishment, Pall. 7, 3 Mai: quemadmodum forensibus certaminibus exercitatos et quasi militantes reficit ac reparat haec velut sagina dicendi, nourishment of oratory, Quint. 10, 5, 17.
      2. * 2. A fatted animal: este, effercite vos, saginam caedite, kill the fatted beast, Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 62.
  2. II. Meton., fatness produced by much eating, corpulence (postAug.): saginam corporis ex nimiā luxuriā contraxit, Just. 21, 2, 1: sagina ventris non homini sed beluae similis, id. 38, 8, 9: qui colorem fuco et verum robur inani saginā mentiuntur, Quint. 2, 15, 25: nimio tendis mole saginam, Aus. Ephem. 1, 8: ursam quae ceteris saginā corporis praevalebat, App. M. 4, p. 149, 7.

săgīnārĭum, ii, n. [sagina], a place where animals are fatted, a feeding-stall, Varr. R. R. 3, 10, 7.

săgīnātĭo, ōnis, f. [sagino], a fattening, feeding, stall-feeding (for the usual sagina), Plin. 8, 51, 77, § 207; Tert. Pall. 4.

săgīnātus, a, um, Part. and P. a., v. sagino.

săgīno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [sagina] (class.; cf. educare).

  1. I. Lit.
    1. A. Of animals, to fatten, fat: pullos columbinos, Varr. R. R. 3, 7, 9: boves ad sacrificia, id. ib. 2, 1, 20: aves offis, Col. 8, 7, 3: equum hordeo ervoque (with roborare largo cibo), id. 6, 27, 8: porcum, Prop. 4(5), 1, 23: corpus, Curt. 9, 7, 16: glires fagi glande, Plin. 16, 6, 7, § 18: catulos ferarum molliore praedā, Quint. 12, 6, 6 et saep.
    2. B. Of persons, to cram, stuff, feast: saginare plebem populares suos, ut jugulentur, Liv. 6, 17, 3: nuptialibus cenis, id. 36, 17: terra, quae copiā rerum omnium (illos Gallos) saginaret, id. 38, 17: cum exquisitis cottidie Antonius saginaretur epulis, Plin. 9, 35, 58, § 119: convivas, id. 33, 10, 47, § 136.
  2. II. Transf., to feed, nourish, etc.: terra multorum annorum frondibus et herbis, velut saginata largioribus pabulis, Col. 2, 1, 5; Plin. 19, 4, 19, § 54: fons umore supero saginatus, Sol. 45: qui ab illo pestifero ac perdito cive jampridem rei publicae sanguine saginantur, * Cic. Sest. 36, 78; Curt. 5, 1, 39; Tac. H. 4, 42.
    Hence, săgīnātus, a, um, P. a., fattened, fat (late Lat.): saginatior hostia, Hier. Ep. 21, 12; so, Christianus ursis, Tert. Jejun. 17 fin.: vitulum, Vulg. Luc. 15, 23.

* sāgĭo, īre, v. n. [root sagh-, to be sharp; Sanscr. saghnomi, kill; Gr. σάγαρις, battle-axe; cf.: sagus, sagax, sagitta], to perceive quickly or keenly by the senses; trop., to perceive acutely with the intellect: sagire sentire acute est: ex quo sagae anus, quia multa scire volunt; et sagaces dicti canes. Is igitur, qui ante sagit quam oblata res est, dicitur praesagire, id est futura ante sentire, Cic. Div. 1, 31, 65.

săgitta, ae, f. [root sagh-; v. sagio].

  1. I. An arrow, shaft, bolt (freq. in prose and poetry; cf.: telum, jaculum): cum arcum mihi et pharetram et sagittas sumpsero, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 99: confige sagittis fures thesaurarios, id. Aul. 2, 8, 25; Cic. Ac. 2, 28, 89; id. N. D. 2, 50, 126 al.: missiles, Hor. C. 3, 6, 16: celeres, id. ib. 3, 20, 9 et saep.: sagittā Cupido cor meum transfixit, Plaut. Pers. 1, 1, 25; Lucr. 4, 1278; Tib. 2, 1, 81; Hor. C. 2, 8, 15; 1, 27, 12: sagittam conicere, Verg. A. 4, 69: nervo aptare sagittas, id. ib. 10, 131; Ov. M. 8, 380: savii sagittis per cussus est, Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 16 (but the better reading is: ejus saviis perculsus).
  2. II. Meton., of things of a like form.
    1. A. The extreme thin part of a vine-branch or shoot, Col. 3, 10, 22; 3, 17, 2; Plin. 17, 21, 35, § 156.
    2. B. The herb arrow-head, Plin. 21, 17, 68, § 111.
    3. C. In late Lat., an instrument for letting blood, a lancet, Veg. 1, 22, 4; 1, 25, 5; 1, 43, 3, etc.
    4. D. Sagitta, a constellation, the Arrow, Hyg. Astr. 2, 15; 3, 14; Cic. Arat. 382; Col. 11, 2, 21; Plin. 17, 18, 30, § 131; 18, 31, 74, § 309.

săgittārĭus, a, um, adj. [sagitta].

  1. I. Of or belonging to an arrow, arrow-: calamus, good for making arrows, Plin. 16, 36, 66, § 166: certamen, with arrows, Dict. Cret. 4, 19.
  2. II. Subst.: săgittārĭus, ii, m.
    1. A. An archer, bowman, a sort of light-armed troops, both foot and horse; usually in the plur., Caes. B. G. 2, 7; 2, 10; 2, 19; 7, 31; Sall. J. 46, 7; Cic. Phil. 5, 6, 18; id. Att. 5, 20, 5; id. Fam. 15, 4, 10; Amm. 29, 5, 22.
      In sing., collect.: levis armatura cum equite sagittario, Tac. A. 2, 16 fin.; 13, 40.
    2. B. săgittārii, ōrum, m., arrow-makers, arrow-smiths, Dig. 50, 6, 7.
    3. C. The constellation Sagittarius, or the Archer (otherwise called Arcitenens], Cic. Arat. 525; Hyg. Fab. 124; id. Astr. 2, 27; 3, 26; Plin. 17, 24, 36, § 215; 30, 11, 29, § 97.

săgittātus, a, um, v. sagitto, II.

săgittĭfer, fĕra, fĕrum, adj. [sagittafero].

  1. I. Arrow-bearing (poet.): pharetra, Ov. M. 1, 468; Stat. Achill. 1, 416: Parthi, armed with arrows, archers, Cat. 11, 6; so, Geloni, Verg. A. 8, 725: pecus, i.e. the porcupine, Claud. Hystr. 48.
  2. II. = Sagittarius, the constellation of the Archer, Manil. 2, 266; 2, 500; 2, 560.

Săgittĭger, gĕri, m. [sagitta-gero], like Sagittifer (II.), for Sagittarius, the constellation of the Archer, Avien. Arat. 482.

Săgittĭ-pŏtens, entis, m. [sagitta], for Sagittarius, the constellation of the Archer, Cic. Arat. 73.

săgitto, no perf., ātum, 1, v. n. and a. [id.].

  1. I. Neutr., to discharge arrows, to shoot with arrows (post-Aug. for sagittam jacere, etc.): hos equitare et sagittare docent, Just. 41, 2, 5; Curt. 7, 5, 42; Sol. 19 med.; Vulg. Psa. 10, 2; 63, 4.
  2. II. Act., in part. perf.: săgittātus, a, um, shot or wounded with an arrow, Cael. Aur. Tard. 2, 12 med.; Ambros. de Cain et Abel, 1, 5, 15.

* săgittŭla, ae, f. dim. [sagitta], a little arrow, App. M. 10, p. 254, 34.

† sagma, ae, f., = σάγμα, a pack-saddle, Veg. 3, 59, 1; Vulg. Lev. 15, 9; cf. Isid. Orig. 20, 16, 5.

sagmārĭus, a, um, adj. [sagma], of or belonging to a pack-saddle (post-class.): equus, a pack-horse, Lampr. Heliog. 4; Aur. ap. Vop. Aur. 7, 7; cf.: caballus, mula, Isid. Orig. 20, 16, 5.

sagmen, ĭnis, n. [root sag, to fill, feed; cf. Gr. σεσαγμένος, σάττω; Lat. sagina], the tuft of sacred herbs plucked within the citadel by the consul or prœtor, by bearing which the persons of the Roman fetiales and ambassadors became inviolable: sunt sagmina quaedam herbae, quas legati populi Romani ferre solebant, ne quis eos violaret, sicuti legati Graecorum ferunt ea, quae vocantur cerycia, Dig. 1, 8, 8; cf. Fest. p. 320 Müll.; and Paul. ex Fest. p. 321 ib.; Plin. 22, 2, 3, § 5; Liv. 1, 24; 30, 43.

† săgochlămys, ydis, f., = [?SAGOXLAMN/S ?], a kind of military cloak, Val. Imp. ap. Treb. Claud. 14.

Sagra, ae, f., = Σάγρας, a river of Lower Italy (of the Bruttii), Cic. N. D. 2, 2, 6; 3, 5, 11; cf. Plin. 3, 10, 15, § 95.

* săgŭlātus, a, um, adj. [sagulum], clothed in or wearing a sagulum: comites, Suet. Vit. 11.

săgŭlum, i, n. dim. [sagum], a small military cloak (usually the purple-colored one of the general), * Cic. Pis. 23, 55; Caes. B. G. 5, 42; Liv. 7, 34 fin.; 21, 4; 27, 19 fin.; 30, 17; Tac. H. 2, 20; 5, 23; id. G. 6; Verg. A. 8, 660; Sil. 4, 519; 17, 532; Suet. Vit. 11.

† săgum, i, n. (ante-class. collat. form săgus, i, m., corresp. to the Greek, Enn. and Varr. ap. Non. 223, 30 sq.; Afran. ap. Charis. p. 81 P.;

  1. I. fem.: sagas caerulas, Enn. ap. Charis. p. 81 P.; but it would perh. be more correct to read sagos caerulos; cf. Enn. p. 182, 54 Vahl.), = σάγος [acc. to Polybius, a Celtic word, whence the Engl. shag], a coarse woollen blanket or mantle (cf. laena), e. g. of servants, Cato, R. R. 59; Col. 1, 8, 9; Dig. 34, 2, 23 fin.; of the Germans, Tac. G. 17; for horses, Veg. Vet. 1, 42, 4; 3, 15, 16; but most freq. of soldiers, a military cloak: valde metuo ne frigeas in hibernis … praesertim qui sagis non abundares, Cic. Fam. 7, 10, 2; Caes. B. C. 1, 75; Liv. 10, 30 fin.: saga fibulatoria, Treb. Pol. Trig. Tyr. 10.
    Hence, saga is a sign of war (as toga is a sign of peace) in the phrases:
        1. a. Saga sumere, to put on the saga, i.q. to take up arms, prepare for battle (it was the custom for all Romans to do this, in token of preparation for war, even those who were not going to the field, excepting persons of consular rank; cf. Cic. Phil. 8, 11, 32; id. Fragm. ap. Non. 538, 27): tumultum decerni, justitium edici, saga sumi dico oportere, delectum habere, etc., id. Phil. 5, 12, 31; 14, 1, 2; Liv. Epit. 72: terrā marique victus hostis punico Lugubre mutavit sagum, Hor. Epod. 9, 28; in sing., of an individual: tum iste (Verres) excitatus sagum sumit, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 36, § 94.
        2. b. In the same signif.: ad saga ire, Cic. Phil. 14, 1, 1; cf. Vell. 2, 16, 3.
        3. c. In sagis esse, to be under arms: cum est in sagis civitas, Cic. Phil. 8, 11, 32.
        4. d. Saga ponere, to lay down one’s arms, Liv. Epit. 73.
  2. II. In gen. (eccl. Lat.), a covering.
      1. 1. A curtain, tent-cover, Vulg. Exod. 26, 7; 36, 14, etc.
      2. 2. A garment, Vulg. Judic. 3, 16.

Săguntum, i, n., and Săguntus (-os), i, f., = Σάγουντον, a town in Hispania Tarraconensis, on the Mediterranean, beyond the Iberus, the besieging and reduction of which by Hannibal led to the breaking out of the second Punic war; now Murviedro.
Neutr., Liv. 21, 7; 21, 18; Luc. 3, 350.
Fem., Mel. 2, 6, 6; Liv. 21, 19; Stat. S. 4, 6, 83; Juv. 15, 114; Flor. 2, 6, 3 al.; cf.: Graia Saguntos, Sil. 3, 178.
Doubtful form, Cic. Phil. 5, 10, 27; id. Div. 1, 24, 49; Liv. 21, 10; Plin. 16, 40, 79, § 216 et saep.
Hence, Săguntīnus (Săguntĭus, Sall. H. Fragm. 2, 22), a, um, adj., of or belonging to Saguntum, Saguntine: ficus, Cato, R. R. 8, 1: id. ap. Plin. 15, 18, 19, § 72: lutum (from which utensils were made), Mart. 8, 6, 2; 14, 108; cf. lagena, Juv. 5, 29: clades, Liv. 21, 19 fin.: rabies, id. 31, 17: ignis, Flor. 2, 6, 9 et saep.
Subst., in plur.: Săguntīni, ōrum, m., the people of Saguntum, the Saguntines, Liv. 21, 2; 21, 6 sq.; Auct. B. Hisp. 8; Front. Strat. 3, 10, 4.

1. sāgus, a, um, adj. [v. sagio; cf. Cic. Div. 1, 31, 65; Paul. ex Fest. p. 255 Müll.],

  1. I. presaging, predicting, prophetic (as adj., only post-Aug.): aves, Stat. Achill. 1, 519: clangores, id. Th. 8, 204: MANVS, i. e. magical, Inscr. Orell. 2486.
  2. II. Subst. (freq. and class.): sāga, ae, f., a female diviner, a wise woman, fortune-teller, soothsayer, Cic. Div. 1, 31, 65 (v. the passage under sagio); Col. 1, 8, 6; 11, 1, 22; Tib. 1, 2, 42; 1, 5, 59; Ov. Am. 3, 7, 29; Hor. C. 1, 27, 21; id. Ep. 2, 2, 208; Prop. 3 (4), 24, 10.
    And, because such women often acted as panders,
      1. 2. A bawd, procuress: sagae mulieres dicuntur feminae ad libidinem virorum indagatrices, Non. 22, 33: ut saga et bona conciliatrix, Lucil. ap. Non. 23, 4: saga conducta pretio, Turp. ib. 6.

2. săgus, i, m., v. sagum.

saumārĭus, a late form for sagmā-rĭus, Ven. Fort. v. Germ. 3.