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epulo

epulo · m

a guest at a feast

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Where it lives

De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 1 · 1.33/10k
Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 1 · 0.79/10k
Metamorphoses 3 · 0.56/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

1. ĕpŭlo — Lewis & Short

ĕpŭlo, ōnis (also EPOLONUS, i, acc. to Paul. ex m.epulum,

Fest. p. 78, 11 Müll.),

I a guest at a feast or banquet, a feaster, carouser.

I In gen. (mostly post-class.), Cic. Att. 2, 7, 3; App. M. 2, p. 123; 9, p. 235; Firm. Math. 5, 4 fin.—Far more freq.,

II In partic.: Tresviri or Septemviri Epulones (in inscrr. also SEPTEMVIR and SEPTEMVIRI [VII. VIR.] EPVLONVM), a t. t. of relig. lang., a college of priests, composed at first of three and afterwards of seven persons, who superintended the sacrificial banquets to the gods, Cic. de Or. 3, 19 fin.; Gell. 1, 12, 6; cf. Plin. Ep. 2, 11, 12; Luc. 1, 602; Inscr. Orell. 590; 773; 2259 sq.; Calend. Praenest. Jan. (Orell. Inscr. 2, p. 382).—In sing.: Epulo, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 6, § 82 Müll. N. cr.: Triumvir Epulo, Liv. 40, 42: tres viri epulones, id. 33, 42, 1: VII. VIRO. EPVLONI, Inscr. Orell. 2365.

2. ĕpŭlo — Lewis & Short

ĕpŭlo, ōnis, m.,

I a proper name, Verg. A. 12, 459.

In the wild

epuloni Cicero, Letters to Atticus 2.7.2
epulonum Pliny the Younger, Letters 2.11.12
epulones Apuleius, Metamorphoses 9.38
Epulo Historia Augusta, Alexander Severus 37
epulonum Apuleius, Metamorphoses 10.16
epulones Sidonius Apollinaris, Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 8.12.p7

6 of 12 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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