Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome

codex, No. I, Apiciana Newton, Sir Isaac, scientist, Apiciana No. 8, p. 268 NITRIUM, {Rx} 66 Nonnus, writer, {Rx} 307, 396 NOVENDIALES, see CENA NUCEA LASERIS, {Rx} 16; also see LASER NUCLEUS, nut, kernel, {Rx} 92 NUCULA, dim. of NUX, small nut; also a certain muscular piece of meat from the hind leg of animals, Fr. NOIX DE VEAU, as of veal, Ger. KALBSNUSS, and a certain small part of the loin of animals, Fr. NOISETTE NUMIDICUS, PULLUS, guinea hen, which see Nut custard, turn-over, {Rx} 129, 143; ---- porridge, {Rx} 297-9; ---- pudding, {Rx} 298, 299, 230; ---- meal mush, {Rx} 300 Nuts, Summary of, p. 236 NUX, p. 236, a nut, both hazel nut and walnut; ---- JUGLANDIS, walnut; ---- PINEIS, ---- PINEA, pine nuts, pignolia; ---- MUSCATA, nutmeg O OBLIGABIS, {Rx} 83; also see AMYLARE OBSONARE, to provide, to buy for the table; to prepare or to give a dinner; from the Greek, OPSON OBSONATOR, steward OBSONIUM, OP--, a dish, a meal, anything eaten with bread OCIMUM, --YMUM, --UMUM, OCINUM, basil, basilica; also a sort of clover OENOGARUM, wine and GARUM (which see), a wine sauce, {Rx} 33, 146, 465; OENOGARATUM, a dish prepared with O. OENOMELI, wine and honey OENOPOLIUM, wine shop; a wine dealer's place, who, however, did a retail business. The TABERNA VINARIA seems to have been the regular wine restaurant, while the THERMOPOLIUM specialized in hot spiced wines. Like today in our complicated civilization, there were in antiquity a number of different refreshment places, each with its specialties and an appropriate name for the establishment OENOTEGANON, {Rx} 479, 81 OFFA, OFFELLA, OFELLA, a lump or ball of meat, a "Hamburger Steak," a meat dumpling, any bit of meat, a morsel, chop, small steak, collop, also various other "dainty" dishes, consisting principally of meat "INTER OS ET OFFAM MULTA INTERVENIUNT"--Cato; the ancient equivalent for our "'twixt cup and lip there is many a slip" {Rx} 261; ---- APICIANA, {Rx} 262; ---- APRUGNEA MORE, {Rx} 263; ---- ALIAE, {Rx} 264-5; ---- LASERATA, {Rx} 271; ---- GARATAS, {Rx} 471-74; ---- ASSAS, {Rx} 472, 473 Oil substitute,