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* F [Sanscr, ma, measure; Gr. μέτρον; cf. manus, mane, etc.], a table for any purpose, as a dining-table; a market-stand for meat, vegetables, etc.; a money-dealer's table or counter, a sacrificial table, etc.
* Lit. Of the table itself as a fabrid: non ferre mensam nisi crebris distinctam venis,Sen. Dial. 3, 35, 5: mensa inanis nunc si adponatur mihi,Plaut. Pers. 3, 1, 26: cibos in mensam alicui apponere,id. Men. 1, 3, 29: surgunt a mensā saturi, poti,id. Ps. 1, 3, 62: ad mensam consistere. to wait at table, Cic. Tusc. 5, 21, 61: auferre mensam,Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 14: apud mensam,at table,id. Trin. 2, 4, 77; Gell. 2, 22, 1; 19, 7, 2: arae vicem praestare posse mensam dicatam,Macr. S. 3, 11, 5.
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* Food; a table, meal, course: quocum mensam sermonesque suos impertit, Enn. ap. Gell. 12, 4 (Ann. v. 240 Vahl.): communicabo te semper mensā meā,Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 51: ita mensas exstruit,id. Men. 1, 1, 25: parciore mensā uti,Tac. A. 13, 16: Italicae Syracusiaeque mensae,Cic. Tusc. 5, 35, 100: cui Quintus de mensa misit,id. Att. 5, 1, 4; so, parāsti mensam adversus eos qui tribulant me,Vulg. Psa. 23, 5: una mensa,at a single meal,Juv. 1, 138: prior, proxima mensa, the first, the second rank at table; the first or second in esteem: Raeticis uvis prior mensa erat,Plin. 14, 1, 3, § 16; id. 9, 17, 29, § 63: secunda mensa, the second course, the dessert (at which much wine was used), Cels 1, 2: haec ad te scripsi, appositā secundā mensā,during the dessert,Cic. Att. 14, 6, 2; 14, 21, 4: Agesilaus coronas secundamque mensam servis dispertiit, Nep Ages. 8, 4: secunda mensa bono stomacho nihil nocet,Cels. 1, 2, fin.: mensae tempore,meal-time,Juv. 13, 211.
* A sacrificial table: Curiales mensae, in quibus immolabatur Junoni, quae Curis est appellata, Paul. ex Fest. s. v. Curiales, p. 64 Müll.: mensae deorum,Verg. A. 2, 764: Jovis mensa,Plin. 25, 9, 59, § 105: a small altar: super tumulum statuere,Cic. Leg. 2, 26, 66.
* The long flat part, the table, of a military engine (e. g. of a catapult), Vitr. 10, 16.
* A stand or platform on which slaves were exposed for sale: servus de mensā paratus,App. M. 8, p. 213; id. Mag. 17, p. 285, 15.
* Mensa lusoria, a gaming-table (late Lat.), Aug. Conf. 8, 6.
* F [Sanscr, ma, measure; Gr. μέτρον; cf. manus, mane, etc.], a table for any purpose, as a dining-table; a market-stand for meat, vegetables, etc.; a money-dealer's table or counter, a sacrificial table, etc.
* Lit. Of the table itself as a fabrid: non ferre mensam nisi crebris distinctam venis,Sen. Dial. 3, 35, 5: mensa inanis nunc si adponatur mihi,Plaut. Pers. 3, 1, 26: cibos in mensam alicui apponere,id. Men. 1, 3, 29: surgunt a mensā saturi, poti,id. Ps. 1, 3, 62: ad mensam consistere. to wait at table, Cic. Tusc. 5, 21, 61: auferre mensam,Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 14: apud mensam,at table,id. Trin. 2, 4, 77; Gell. 2, 22, 1; 19, 7, 2: arae vicem praestare posse mensam dicatam,Macr. S. 3, 11, 5.
* Transf.
* Food; a table, meal, course: quocum mensam sermonesque suos impertit, Enn. ap. Gell. 12, 4 (Ann. v. 240 Vahl.): communicabo te semper mensā meā,Plaut. Mil. 1, 1, 51: ita mensas exstruit,id. Men. 1, 1, 25: parciore mensā uti,Tac. A. 13, 16: Italicae Syracusiaeque mensae,Cic. Tusc. 5, 35, 100: cui Quintus de mensa misit,id. Att. 5, 1, 4; so, parāsti mensam adversus eos qui tribulant me,Vulg. Psa. 23, 5: una mensa,at a single meal,Juv. 1, 138: prior, proxima mensa, the first, the second rank at table; the first or second in esteem: Raeticis uvis prior mensa erat,Plin. 14, 1, 3, § 16; id. 9, 17, 29, § 63: secunda mensa, the second course, the dessert (at which much wine was used), Cels 1, 2: haec ad te scripsi, appositā secundā mensā,during the dessert,Cic. Att. 14, 6, 2; 14, 21, 4: Agesilaus coronas secundamque mensam servis dispertiit, Nep Ages. 8, 4: secunda mensa bono stomacho nihil nocet,Cels. 1, 2, fin.: mensae tempore,meal-time,Juv. 13, 211.
* A sacrificial table: Curiales mensae, in quibus immolabatur Junoni, quae Curis est appellata, Paul. ex Fest. s. v. Curiales, p. 64 Müll.: mensae deorum,Verg. A. 2, 764: Jovis mensa,Plin. 25, 9, 59, § 105: a small altar: super tumulum statuere,Cic. Leg. 2, 26, 66.
* The long flat part, the table, of a military engine (e. g. of a catapult), Vitr. 10, 16.
* A stand or platform on which slaves were exposed for sale: servus de mensā paratus,App. M. 8, p. 213; id. Mag. 17, p. 285, 15.
* Mensa lusoria, a gaming-table (late Lat.), Aug. Conf. 8, 6.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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