I.meat-market, provision-market (where flesh, fish, and vegetables were sold).
I. Lit.: “venio ad macellum, rogito pisces,” Plaut. Aul. 2, 8, 3: “apud emporium atque in macello,” id. Am. 4, 1, 4: “nostin' porticum apud macellum hac deorsum?” Ter. Ad. 4, 2, 34: excandefacere annonam macelli, Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 16; cf.: “putarem annonam in macello cariorem fore,” Cic. Div. 2, 27, 59: “barathrum macelli,” Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 31: “quae est ista laus, quae possit e macello peti?” Cic. Fin. 2, 15, 50: “dispositis circa macellum custodibus,” Suet. Caes. 43: “cetariorum,” Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 7: “ad ipsum introitum exspectare macelli,” Juv. 11, 10: “retibus adsiduis penitus scrutante macello proxima,” id. 5, 95.—In masc.: “conturbator macellus,” Mart. 10, 96, 9.—Plur.: “fercula nullis ornata macellis,” Juv. 11, 64.—*
II. Transf., meat: “arcessitur inde macellum,” Manil. 5, 370.
