apophoreta

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

ăpŏphŏrēta, ōrum, n., = ἀποφόρητα (to be borne away),

presents which guests received at table , especially at the Saturnalia , to carry home with them , Suet. Calig. 55; id. Vesp. 19; cf. id. Aug. 75; or which candidates distributed , Symm. 2, 87 al.—Also, title of the fourteenth book of the epigrams of Martial.