Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Macellarius

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. 

MACELLA'RIUS (ὀψοπώλης). A victualler, or one who kept a cook's shop, as contradistinct from Lanio, the meat-purveyor. (Varro, R. R. iii. 2. 11.) He dealt in provisions of every description, flesh, fish, and fowl (Suet. Vesp. 19. Compare Plaut. Aul. ii. 8. 3 — 5.), which he sold ready cooked (Suet. Jul. 26.). His shop was termed taberna macellaria, and his trade regarded as one of the lowest (sordidissimae mercis). Val. Max. iii. 4. 4.