OBSONATOR, steward
OBSONIUM, OP—, a dish, a meal, anything eaten with bread
OCIMUM, —YMUM, —UMUM, OCINUM, basil, basilica; also a sort of clover
OENOGARUM, wine and [GARUM] (which see), a wine sauce, ℞ [33], [146], [465]; OENOGARATUM, a dish prepared with O.
OENOMELI, wine and honey
OENOPOLIUM, wine shop; a wine dealer’s place, who, however, did a retail business. The TABERNA VINARIA seems to have been the regular wine restaurant, while the THERMOPOLIUM specialized in hot spiced wines. Like today in our complicated civilization, there were in antiquity a number of different refreshment places, each with its specialties and an appropriate name for the establishment
OFFA, OFFELLA, OFELLA, a lump or ball of meat, a “Hamburger Steak,” a meat dumpling, any bit of meat, a morsel, chop, small steak, collop, also various other “dainty” dishes, consisting principally of meat
“INTER OS ET OFFAM MULTA INTERVENIUNT”—Cato; the ancient equivalent for our “’twixt cup and lip there is many a slip”
℞ [261]; —— APICIANA, ℞ [262]; —— APRUGNEA MORE, ℞ [263]; —— ALIAE, ℞ [264-5]; —— LASERATA, ℞ [271]; —— GARATAS, ℞ [471-74]; —— ASSAS, ℞ [472], [473]