conviva

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

con-vīva, ae, comm. [vivo] (lit., one who lives with another; hence),

I one who feasts with another, a table companion, guest (freq. and class.).

α Masc. , Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 50; Ter. Eun. 407; id. Heaut. 172; Afran. ap. Non. p. 235, 25; Cic. Tusc. 1, 2, 3; id. Brut. 19, 75; Cat. 44, 10; Prop. 3 (4), 7, 45; Hor. S. 1, 1, 119 et saep.: deorum (Tantalus), id. C. 1, 28, 7.—

β Fem. : postquam conveni omnes convivas meas, Pompon. ap. Charis. p. 37 P. (Com. Rel. v. 16 Rib.).

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