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scitamenta

scitamenta · n

Delicate food

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Where it lives

Metamorphoses 1 · 0.19/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

scītāmenta — Lewis & Short

scītāmenta, ōrum, n.1. scitus, A. 2..

I Delicate food, dainties (ante- and postclass.), Plaut. Men. 1, 3, 26: Matius ap. Gell. 20, 9, 3; Macr. S. 7, 14; App. M. 10, p. 245. —*

II Trop., of figures of speech, niceties, prettinesses: '*omoiote/leuta ... kai\ o(moio/ptwta ceteraque hujusmodi scitamenta, Gell. 18, 8, 1.

In the wild

scitamenta Apuleius, Metamorphoses 10.13
scitamenta Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 18.8.1

Where it came from

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