epulae (general term for meal, whether frugal or sumptuous, whether en famille or with guests, at home or in public): convivium (a social, convivial meal): dapes (a religious meal; a feast on the offerings): epulum (a solemn meal, mostly political, in honor of something): comissatio (a gormandizing meal; a feast): to prepare a banquet, convivium instruere, apparare, comparare, ornare, exornare: to give a banquet, cenam or epulum alicui dare: to hold a banquet, convivium habere, agere: to go to a banquet, convivium inire; se convivio reddere: to invite to a banquet, aliquem ad cenam invitare or vocare: to be at a banquet, convivio interesse. INTR., convivari; epulari apud aliquem: convivium celebrare: sumptuously, saliarem in modum epulari.