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popina

popina, a cook-shop, eatinghouse, low tavern

pŏpīna, ae, f. [πέπω, πέπτω, to cook],
  • a cook-shop, victualling-house, eating-house (syn.: caupona, taberna): bibitur, estur, quasi in popinā, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 13 (835); Cic. Phil. 2, 28, 69; 13, 11, 24; Suet. Tib. 34; id. Ner. 16; Hor. S. 2, 4, 62; id. Ep. 1, 14, 21; Mart. 1, 42, 10; 5, 70, 3; Juv. 8, 172; 11, 81. —
  • II Transf., the food sold at a cookshop: si epulae potius quam popinae nominandae sunt, Cic. Phil. 3, 8, 20: taeterrimam popinam inhalare, id. Pis. 6, 13.

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