Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Coquus

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. 

COQUUS (μάγειρος). A cook (Mart. xiv. 220. Liv. xxxix. 6.); and in early times a maker of bread (Festus, s. v. Plin. H. N. xviii. 28.) It was not until U. C. 568., that the baker's became a distinct trade at Rome; and previously to this period each family ground their own flower, the cook making and baking the bread (Plin. l. c.) The Greek μάγειρος was also originally employed in making bread for the family.