Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Convivium

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

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.