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TIT-BIT

mattea (a small and delicate morsel of food Sen. Contr. 4 27 Petr.): cibus delicatus: plur. cuppedia -orum neuter or cuppediae -arum feminine; cibi delicatiores (general term): res ad epulandum exquisitissimae (exquisite delicacies for the table): bonae res (the best bits at table as distinguished from the rest of the food Nep. Ages. 8 5 where it is perhaps only a translation of the corresponding τὰ ἀγαθά): ganeae opera -um neuter (as articles of excess): gulae irritamenta (as far as they excite the palate. ☞ Such expressions as escae molliculae scitamenta belong only to the comic writers; lautitiae is = a magnificent style of living). To eat only tit-bits unum quidque quod est bellissimum edere (after Ter. Ad. 4 2 51): this bird is now reckoned among the best tit-bits haec ales nunc inter primas expetitur: fond of tit-bits *cuppediorum studiosus (after Suet. Caes. 4 6): fastidii delicati (that can relish none but dainty food).

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