Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Popina

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. 

POPI'NA (ὀψοπωλεῖον). An eating-house, cook's-shop, or tavern, in which ready-dressed victuals were sold, as contradistinguished from caupona, which was more particularly established for the sale of liquors, though the master of a popina also drew wine for his customers. (Plaut. Poen. iv. 2. 13. Cic. Phil. ii. 28. Mart. i. 42.) It was customary to display some dainties and choice viands in the windows of these eating-houses, deposited in glass bottles filled with water, in order to magnify their size and entice customers. Macrob. Sat. vii. 14.