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serve up

serve up (v.): to prepare and present in a dish or dishes:

1. appōno, pŏsui, pŏsĭtum, 3: to s. up supper, coenam ap., Pl. Trin. 2, 4, 69: to s. up just a sufficiency, alicui tantum quod satis est a., Cic. Tusc. 5, 32, 91.

2. infĕro, 3, irr.: he ordered the second course to be s.d up, mensam secundam inferri jussit, Plin. 9, 35, 58: cf. id. 33, 11, 52 (lancem).

3. mĭnistro, 1: my dinner is s.d up by three lacqueys, coena ministratur pueris tribus, Hor. S. 1, 6, 116: he ordered (the dinner) to be s.d up in earthenware dishes to Vinius alone, soli Vinio fictilibus ministrari jussit, Tac. H. 1, 48, med. Comp. admĭnistro, 1: honey is s.d up at the beginning of a repast and in the second course, mel ad principia convivii et in secundam mensam administratur, Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 5.

4. pōno, 3 (less freq.: comp. supr. 1): a peacock having been s.d up, posito pavone, Hor. S. 2, 2, 23.

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