Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Convivium

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. 

CONVIV'IUM (σύνδειπνον, ἑστίασις). A feast, or banquet; but at regular and proper hours, and without any implied notion of debauchery or excess; in which respect it differs from comissatio, which was a protracted revel after the convivium. Cic. Senect. 13. Id. Verr. ii. 4. 27. Id. Offic. iii. 14.