obsoni
Dictionary entries
- Entry →obsonium, obsoni(i):
Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
food; provisions, shopping; food w/bread; victuals (esp. fish);
gen. sg.
Examples
Truculentus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...quibus invidetur, i rem habent. DIN. Non licet obsoni me participem fieri? AST. Si volebas participari, auferres dimidium..."Aulularia
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...PYTH. Vicini huius Euclionis e proximo. ei adeo obsoni hinc iussit dimidium dari, cocum alterum itidemque alteram tibicinam..."Liber III
Aulus Gellius
"...dicit, non "dimidiatum aurum"; item in Aulularia "dimidium obsoni", non "dimidiatum obsonium", in hoc versu: ei adeo obsoni..."