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  • [Greek omitted] DINNER, they call prandium, from the time of the dry; for [Greek omitted] signifies NOON-TIDE, and to rest after dinner is expressed by

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • [Greek omitted] DINNER, they call prandium, from the time of the dry; for [Greek omitted] signifies NOON-TIDE, and to rest after dinner is expressed by

    Symposiacs 2004

  • According to some, this meal was the same as the "prandium," or

    The Captiva and the Mostellaria Titus Maccius Plautus 1847

  • Nec volumus quod occasione ferculi nostri predicti prandium dicti Conventus de quo antiquitus communiter eis deserviri sive ministrari solebat in aliquo pejoretur seu diminuatur.

    The Monastery 2008

  • Terebinthinam Cypriam habeant familiarem, ad quantitatem deglutiant nucis parvae, tribus horis ante prandium vel coenam, ter singulis septimanis prout expedire videbitur; nam praeterquam quod alvum mollem efficit, obstructiones aperit, ventriculum purgat, urinam provocat hepar mundificat.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Scoltzii laudatur conditus rosae caninae fructus ante prandium et caenem ad magnitudinem castaneae.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Qui mihi mittunt munera, ad prandium, ad coenam vocant.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • In a glossary of the tenth-eleventh century only two meals are quoted: undermeat = prandium, and even-meat = coena.

    Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine 2006

  • [Greek omitted]; or else by prandium they denote a bit taken in the morning, [Greek omitted], BEFORE THEY HAVE NEED OF ANY.

    Symposiacs 2004

  • Hæ ad prandium recumbenti afferunt processionis more pro singulo ferculo semper 5. genera dapum nobilium cum dulcisonæ resonantia cantilenæ, quarum aliquæ ei singulos detruncant genu flexo morsellos, aliquæ ponunt in ore, mundis tergentes comedentis labia mappis.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

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