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  • St. Augustine mentions this custom in a sermon for the day [apparently in "260A" - which I couldn't find on the web, but will post if I ever do], and it is also alluded to in the Eastertide Vesper hymn, "Ad regias Agni dapes" or, in its older form, "Ad cœnam Agni providi" [here], written by an ancient imitator of St. Ambrose.

    Archive 2009-04-01 bls 2009

  • The revised hymn can be found under the title of Ad regias Agni dapes.

    Archive 2008-04-01 bls 2008

  • The revised hymn can be found under the title of Ad regias Agni dapes.

    Office Hymns of Eastertide bls 2008

  • Mancipia gulae, dapes non sapore sed sumptu aestimantes.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Ea enim per varias et exquisitas dapes, interpositis musicis et joculatoribus, in multas saepius horas extrahunt, ac subinde productis choreis et amoribus foeminarum indulgent,

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • The revised hymn can be found under the title of Ad regias Agni dapes.

    An Office Hymn Tune Compendium, Part II bls 2007

  • The revised hymn can be found under the title of Ad regias Agni dapes.

    Archive 2007-11-01 bls 2007

  • _Atr_. scio quid queraris: scelere praerepto doles, nec quod nefandas hauseris angit dapes; quod non pararis: fuerat hic animus tibi instruere similes inscio fratri cibos et adiuvante liberos matre aggredi similique leto sternere -- hoc unum obstitit:

    Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914

  • Eastertide Vesper hymn, "Ad regias Agni dapes" (or, in its older form, "Ad cœnam Agni providi"), written by an ancient imitator of St. Ambrose.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • Asteris ante dapes, nocte Asteris, Asteris ortu, quantum non clamatus Hylas. iamque aspera coepit flectere corda libens et iam sibi dura uideri.

    The Marriage of Stella and Violentilla 1912

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