I.a late breakfast, luncheon (cf.: “jentaculum, cena), usually taken at or soon after noon, composed of bread, fish, cold meats, etc. (it was thought gluttonous to have several dishes and wine at the prandium): ire ad prandium,” Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 18; id. Stich. 4, 2, 45: “adducere aliquem ad se ad prandium,” id. Poen. 5, 5, 3: “coquere alicui prandium,” id. Men. 2, 3, 37: “funus prandio facere,” id. ib. 3, 2, 27: “apparare,” to get ready, prepare, id. ib. 1, 2, 61: “accurare,” id. ib. 3, 25: “ornare,” id. Rud. 1, 2, 53: “dare,” to give, id. Am. 2, 2, 33: “obsonare alicui,” id. Poen. 5, 5, 16: “anteponere,” to set before, serve up, id. Men. 2, 2, 2: “comedere,” id. ib. 3, 2, 55: “prandere,” id. Poen. 3, 5, 14: “in prandio aliquem accipere apud se,” id. Cist. 1, 1, 12: “invitare ad prandium,” Cic. Mur. 35, 73: “prandiorum apparatus,” id. Phil. 2, 39, 101; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 19, § 49: “ad prandium surgere,” Suet. Calig. 58: “panis deinde siccus et sine mensā prandium: post quod non sunt lavendae manus,” Sen. Ep. 83, 6: “post prandium aut cenam bibere volgare est,” id. ib. 122, 6: de prandio nihil detrahi potuit; “paratum fuit non magis hora, nusquam sine caricis, nusquam sine pugillaribus: illae, si panem habeo, propulmentario sunt, si non habeo, pro pane,” id. ib. 87, 3: “prandia cenis usque in lucem ingesta,” id. Q. N. 4, 13, 6. The candidates gave such prandia to their tribules, Cic. Mur. 32, 67; “the emperor to the people,” Suet. Caes. 38; id. Tib. 20; cf. also Cic. Att. 5, 1, 3; Mart. 6, 64, 2; Suet. Vit. 13; id. Aug. 78; id. Claud. 34.—
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B. The feed or fodder of animals: “bubus glandem prandio depromere,” Plaut. Truc. 3, 1, 2: “prandio dato ipsis jumentisque eorum,” Val. Max. 3, 7, 1.
