patina

• I Lit.: ut patinae fervent, Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 51 (840): qui mi inter patinas exhibes argutias, id. Most. 1, 1, 2 (2): jamdudum animus est in patinis, i. e. my belly has been crying cupboard, Ter. Eun. 816; Cic. Att. 4, 8, a, 1: muraena In patinā porrectā, Hor. S. 2, 8, 43; Plin. 23, 2, 33, § 68: fictiles, id. 34, 11, 25, § 109: orobanche estur et per se et in patinis, i. e. cooked, id. 22, 25, 80, § 162: patinae ob immensam magnitudinem, Suet. Vit. 13: deerat pisci patinae mensura, i. e. a dish large enough, Juv. 4, 72.—
• II Transf.
• • A A kind of cake, Apic. 4, 2.—
  • B A crib, manger, Veg. 1, 56.

• 2 PAT-, a broad, shallow dish, pan, stewpan: animus est in patinis, I am thinking of the dishes, T.: tyrotarichi: muraena In patinā porrecta, H.: deerat pisci patinae mensura, i. e. a dish large enough, Iu.

PATINA(τρύβλιον) a deep dish used alike for cooking ( patinarius, stewed, opposed to assus, roast, Plaut. Asin. 1.3, 27) and for serving up food, as is seen from Plant. Pseud. 3.2, 51, whence we gather also that it was sometimes a covered dish: probably this was generally the case when the food was brought up in the patina in which it had been cooked (cf. Hor. Sat. 2.8, 43). The patina was, however, often the dish for serving up what had been cooked in other vessels. This is clear from our finding silver patinae, e. g. a patina argentea hederata (with ivy-leaf chasing: cf. filicata) in Trebell. Poll. Claud. 17, and the patina of Aesopus valued at 100,000 sesterces (Plin. Nat.35.163). Among costly patinae that of Vitellius holds the first place; not, however, from its material, as it was of earthenware, but because it was so large that a special oven had to be built for it at a cost of a million sesterces (Plin. l. c.; Suet. Vitell. 13).

As regards the Greek equivalents, the τρύβλιον perhaps comes nearest in shape and use (Aristoph. Av. 77): it was of earthenware (Id. Eccl. 252) and also of silver (Athen. 6.230 e): the λοπὰς was used both for cooking and serving food, but it was flatter and more like the patella: the χύτρα, on the other hand, was deeper and (serving also both purposes) is equivalent to OLLAThe λεκάνη is often given as the equivalent of patina, and it was probably of much the same shape, but its uses were different: a basin ἵνα ἐξεμοῦσι (Poll. 10.76; cf. Ar. Nub. 907); a trough for brick-makers (LATERp. 8).

(λεκάνη, τρύβλιον, λοπάς), dimin. Patella. A deep dish used both for cooking and for serving food at table; sometimes covered. When used for cooking it was generally of earthenware, but for table-service it was often of silver, sometimes with delicate chasing, so that the actor Aesopus had one valued at 100,000 sesterces, or $4000 (Pliny , Pliny H. N. xxxv. 163). Vitellius had one of earthenware so large that the special oven built to contain it cost 1,000,000 sesterces, or $40,000 (Pliny , l. c.; Suet. Vitell. 13).