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(adjective) : Apīcĭus, ii, m.
* A notorious epicure under Augustus and Tiberius, Plin. 10, 48, 68, § 133; cf. Tac. A. 4, 1.—Hence
* The title of a Latin book on cookery, yet extant, in ten books, whose author is unknown, v. Bähr, Lit. Gesch. p. 521; Teuffel, Rom. Lit. § 278, 4.
* Deriv.: Apīcĭ-ānus, a, um, , of or pertaining to Apicius: coctura,Plin. 19, 8, 41, § 143: patina,Apic. 4, 2: condimenta,Tert. Anim. 33.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary