I.a dainty dish, dainty, delicacy, Suet. Calig. 38; Sen. Contr. 4, 27; Petr. 65: to mattea sola juvat (al. juvant, assuming a collat. form, mattĕum , i, n.), Mart. 10, 59, 4: “inter quadrupedes mattea prima lepus,” id. 13, 92, 2.
mattĕa (mattya , mactĕa ), ae, f., = ματτύα (v. Varr. L. L. 5, 22, § 112 Müll.),