epulae

plural of epulum.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈe.pu.lae̯/, [ˈɛpʊɫ̪äe̯]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈe.pu.le/, [ˈɛːpule]

epulae f pl (genitive epulārum); first declension

1. feast, banquet, sumptuous meal

   Synonyms: epulum, convīvium, dominium, cōmissātiō, fēsta, daps, alogia

2. dishes, meats.
3. (figuratively) food.

   Synonym: cibus

This is used as a noun only in the plural and as the plural of epulum. It is particularly used in the plural when describing a religious festival.

First-declension noun, plural only.

• epulāris
• epulō
• epulor
• epulum

• “epulae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “epulae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• epulae in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• epulae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) to load the tables with the most exquisite viands: mensas exquisitissimis epulis instruere (Tusc. 5. 21. 62)
    
  • (ambiguous) during dinner; at table: inter cenam, inter epulas
    
  • (ambiguous) to entertain, regale a person: accipere aliquem (bene, copiose, laute, eleganter, regio apparatu, apparatis epulis)