Meaning of lucunculus | Babel Free

Definitions

thick pancake (glossed with Greek τηγανίτης (tēganítēs), the full recipe of which is described by Galen)

declension-2, masculine

Equivalents

Examples

“Pistori nubat? cur non scriblitario, / Vt mittat fratris filio lucuntulos?”

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“Vix Aurora novos movebat ortus, iam bellaria linea pluebant: hunc rorem veniens profudit Eurus. quicquid nobile Ponticis nucetis fecundis cadit aut iugis Idumes quod ramis pia germinat Damascos et quod percoquit Ebosea Caunos largis gratuitum cadit rapinis, mollēs gāĭŏlī lŭcuntŭlīque et massis Amerina non perustis et mustaceus et latente palma”

2015 translation by D. R. Shackleton Bailey, revised by Christopher A. Parrott Scarce was Aurora moving another dawn and already dainties were raining from the line—such the dew that rising East Wind poured down: the best that falls in Pontic nutteries or Idume’s fertile hills, what pious Damascus grows upon her boughs and what Ebosean Caunus ripens—free of charge descends the lavish loot. Soft mannikins and pastries, Ameria’s solidities unscorched, must cakes and pregnant dates from an invisible palm—down they fell.

“Nam vespera post opiparas cenas earumque splendidissimos apparatus multas numero partes in cellulam suam mei solebant reportare domini: ille porcorum, pullorum, piscium, et cuiusce modi pulmentorum largissimas reliquias, hic panes, crustula, lucunculos, hamos, laterculos, et plura scitamenta mellita. Qui cum se refecturi clausa cellula balneas petissent, oblatis ego divinitus dapibus affatim saginabar.”

1989 translation by J. Arthur Hanson In the evenings, after luxurious dinners with the most brilliant trimmings, my masters used to bring back lots of leftovers to their lodgings: the one brought extremely generous remnants of pork, fowl, fish, and every other kind of meat; the other breads, cookies, fritters, croissants, biscuits, and many other honey-sweetened dainties. As soon as they locked up their room and went to the baths to refresh themselves, I would stuff myself to capacity on those heaven-sent feasts.

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