Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Prandium

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. 

PRAN'DIUM (ἄριστον). A meal taken about the middle of the day (Suet. Claud. 34.), between the hours of breakfast (jentaculum) and dinner (coena), (Suet. Vit. 13.), which we might translate a luncheon, or an early dinner, according to the nature and quantity of food set out for the purpose; for it was sometimes a very slight and simple meal, intended merely to stay the stomach from long fasting (Hor. Sat. i. 6. 27.), consisting of bread and cheese, without meat or wine, and not served upon a table regularly set out (Celsus, i. 3. Senec. Ep. 83. Mart. xiii. 30.); but persons fond of indulging their appetites used to set out a regular meal of delicacies (Cic. Phil. ii. 39.), like our hot luncheons, and even take their wine after it. Plaut. Men. 1. 2. 61. Mart. iv. 90.