Lewis Short
allĭum | alium (noun N) : (better ; v. Plaut. Most. 48 Ritschl, and Corp. Ins. tit. iv. 2070), , cf. ἀλλᾶς, seasoned meat
* Garlic (much used for food among the poor).
* Lit.: oboluisti alium,Plaut. Most. 1, 1, 38; so id. Poen. 5, 5, 34 al.; Hor. Epod. 3, 3; Plin. 19, 6, 32, § 101.—Plur. alia, Verg. E. 2, 11.
* Trop.: atavi nostri cum alium ac saepe eorum verba olerent, tamen optime animati erant, Varr. ap. Non. 201, 6 (where the double trope olere ... animati is worthy of notice).
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary