In that most humorous appeal of Perseus"Cur quis non prandeat, hoc est?" "Is this a sufficient reason for losing one's prandium?"

"Post larationem sine mensâ prandium," says Seneca, "post quod non sunt lavandæ manus;" that is, "after bathing, I take a prandium without sitting down to table, and such a prandium as brings after itself no need of washing the hands."

Though no soldier dined, (coenabat,) yet the citizen sometimes adopted the camp usage and took a prandium.

" In a glossary of the tenth-eleventh century only two meals are quoted: undermeat = prandium, and even-meat = coena.