feast (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. convīvium2. daps, dăpis, f. (chiefly poet. and used of religious feasts)3. ĕpŭlae, arum; ĕpŭlum, i (the latter form, only of religious feasts)4. dies festus • feast (subs.): 1. convīvium: our ancestors did well in calling a f. of friends convivium, bene majores nostri accubitionem epularem amicorum c. nominarunt, Cic. Sen. 13, 45: v. banquet. 2. daps, dăpis, f. (chiefly poet. and used of religious feasts): give a f. in honour of Jove, redde Jovi dapem, Hor. Od. 2, 7, 17: solemn f.s, sollemnes d., Virg. Aen. 3, 301: a Salian f., Saliares d., Hor. Od. 1, 37, 4. 3. ĕpŭlae, arum; ĕpŭlum, i (the latter form, only of religious feasts): v. banquet. 4. dies festus: v. festival. Phr.: to be cooking for a wedding f., coquere ad nuptias, Pl. Aul. 3, 2, 15: to give a birth-day f., natalicia dare, Cic. Phil. 2, 6, 15: to entertain any one with a handsome f., aliquem benigne accipere; lepide et lepidis victibus accipere, Pl. (v. to entertain): ye nights and f.s worthy of gods, O noctes coenaeque deum! Hor. S. 2, 6, 65: these things are to me a f. of delight, his ego rebus pascor, his delector, his fruor! Cic. in Pis. 20, 45: what a f. have I had in your letter, *quantam voluptatem ex literis tuis percepi! (v. pleasure).