pābulum ī, n 1 PA-, food, nourishment, food for cattle, fodder, pasturage, grass: pecoris, S.: secare pabulum, Cs.: comparare, N.: hirundo Pabula parva legens, V.: pabula carpsit ovis, O.: Pabula canescunt, i. e. the grass, O.: caelestia, i. e. ambrosia, O.

—Fig., food, nourishment, sustenance: animorum: dederat nova pabula morbo, O.