Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Cochlearium

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

COCHLEA'RIUM. A place where snails were bred and fattened; which were considered as a delicacy by the Roman epicures, being imported from different parts, to be reared and fed in these home nurseries. (Varro, R. R. iii. 12. 2. Ib. 14. 1. Plin. H. N. ix. 82.) The ridiculous Trimalchio has them served up to table upon silver grid-irons. Pet. Sat. 70. 7.