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Roman Life - Food and Meals

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traditional Roman dinner party
convivium/sumposium
how many people could dine at a traditional roman dinner party
9
deli
thermopolium
Roman term for peach
malum persicum (Persian apple)
apricot
malum armeniacum (Armenian apple)
pomegranate
malum punicum (Phoenician apple)
lower millstone of a grain mill
meta
upper millstone of a grail mill
catillus
grain mill
mola
dark bitter oil which flows from first pressing of olives
amurca
edible olive oil
oleum
fermented wine
vinum
drink made of wine and honey
mulsum
drink made of water and honey
mulsa
fermented fish sauce
garum
a fermented fish sauce similar to garum
liquamen
doormouse; a delicacy
glis
breakfast
ientaculum
lunch
prandium
chief meal; dinner
cena
appetizer
gustatio
light evening meal (sometimes the cena was eaten at midday)
vesperna/merenda
dining room
triclinium
couch for dining (three made up the triclinium, 3 diners sat on each couch, 9 total diners)
lectus
appetizers of cena
gustus/antecena
dessert
secunda mensa (second table)
from the egg to the apples (beginning to end of a Roman meal)
ab ovo usque ad mala
"master of drinking", decides how strong the alcohol will be, determined by whoever achieved a Venus throw
magister bibendi/rex bibendi/arbiter bibendi
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