gustatio

Sighing gratefully, he settled himself in solitary state upon his couch to await the gustatio.

The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991

At which moment the gustatio — the first course — came in, hastily augmented, Sulla suspected, in honor of his return; for besides the normal fare of olives, lettuce salad, and hard-boiled eggs, it contained some little pheasant sausages and chunks of tunnyfish in oil.

The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

However, we are led to believe that the tastes of his time called for a certain mild sensuality as the gustatio to a feast of reason, and had Omar Khayyam lived in our own day he would doubtless have agreed with a reverend Erlington and Bosworth Professor in the

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. Wallace Irwin 1917

The ordinary three parts or courses (_mensae_) of a dinner, -- the gustatio or light preliminary course, the cena proper, with substantial dishes, and the dessert of pastry and fruit, could be amplified and extended to an unlimited extent by the skill of the slave-cooks brought from Greece and the

Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero W. Warde Fowler 1884

First, the ‘promulsis,’ ‘antecœna,’ or ‘gustatio,’ when they ate such things as served to stimulate the appetite.

The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations 43 BC-18? Ovid 1847