I.a sowing, planting (several times in Cic.; elsewhere rare).
I. Lit.: “satui semen dederit nemini,” Cato, R. R. 5, 3: “herbam asperam, credo (sc. exstitisse), avium congestu, non humano satu,” Cic. Div. 2, 32, 68: “quid ergo vitium ortus, satus, incrementa commemorem?” id. Sen. 15, 52.—
B. Transf., a begetting, producing; origin, stock, race: “a primo satu, quo a procreatoribus nati diliguntur,” Cic. Fin. 5, 23, 65; cf.: “genitalis,” Lucr. 4, 1229: me ut credam ex tuo esse conceptum satu, Att. ap. Non. 174, 12; cf. id. ib. 174, 14: “Herculi Jovis satu edito,” Cic. Off. 1, 32, 118: “ex hominum pecudumve conceptu et satu,” id. Div. 1, 42, 93: “Caeli satu Terraeque conceptu generati,” id. Univ. 11.—*
II. Trop., seed: “philosophia praeparat animos ad satus accipiendos,” Cic. Tusc. 2, 5, 13.
