Apicius

Ăpīcĭus, ii, m.

• • I.A A notorious epicure under Augustus and Tiberius, Plin. 10, 48, 68, § 133; cf. Tac. A. 4, 1.—Hence,
  • B The title of a Latin book on cookery, yet extant, in ten books, whose author is unknown, v. Bähr, Lit. Gesch. p. 521; Teuffel, Röm. Lit. § 278, 4.—
• II Deriv.: Ăpīcĭ-ānus, a, um, adj., of or pertaining to Apicius: coctura, Plin. 19, 8, 41, § 143: patina, Apic. 4, 2: condimenta, Tert. Anim. 33.

Apīcius, ī, m., ein röm. Beiname, unter dem bes. bekannt: M. Gabius Apicius, der berühmteste Feinschmecker u. Kochkünstler der Römer unter Tiberius, Sen. ad Helv. 10, 2 sq. Plin. 9, 66. Tac. ann. 4, 1. – dah. Titel eines Buches über die Kochkunst, das noch erhalten, dessen Verfasser aber unbekannt ist. – Dav.: 1) Apīciānus, a, um, zu Apicius gehörig, apicianisch, coctura, Plin.: patina, Apic.: condimenta, Tert. – 2) Apīcius, a, um, zu Apicius gehörig, apicisch, des Apcius, a) = von einem Apicius vor od. zu der Zeit des M. Porcius Kato benannt, uva, Cato u.a.: u. subst. Apīcium, ī, n. (sc. vinum), »apicischer Wein«, Cato u. Varr. – b) des oben gen. M. Gabius Apicius, epulones, Sidon. ep. 4, 7.

2 Apīcĭus, (13) ĭī, m. , M. Gavius Apicius [gastronome célèbre] : Plin. 10, 133 ; Sen. Helv. 10, 2 ; Tac. Ann. 4, 1 || -ciānus, a, um, dʼApicius : Plin. 19, 143.

Apicius , Marcus Gavius

A bon-vivant of the time of Augustus and Tiberius. He borrowed the name Apicius from an epicure of the republican period, and was himself the author of a cook-book. Though worth a fortune of some $375,000, he became haunted by the fear of starving to death, and so poisoned himself to escape such a fate. The well-known collection of recipes for cooking, in ten books, entitled De Re Coquinaria, is of later date, and written by one Apicius Caelius in the third century A.D. The best edition is that of C. Th. Schuch (Heidelberg, 1867), who has added some recipes from a Paris MS. of the seventh century.