_cibum sumere, capere_—to take food.
_cibum concoquere, conficere_—to digest food.
_multi cibi esse, edacem esse_—to be a great eater.
_cibum apponere, ponere alicui_—to set food before a person.
_corpus curare (cibo, vino, somno)_—to refresh oneself, minister to
one's bodily wants.
_ventri deditum esse_—to be the slave of one's appetite.
_cibo se abstinere_—to abstain from all nourishment.
_ieiunium servare_—to fast.
_tantum cibi et potionis adhibere quantum satis est_—to take only
enough food to support life.
_cibus delicatus_—delicacies.
_panis cibarius_—ordinary bread.
_vino deditum esse, indulgere_—to be given to drink.
_potare_—to drink to excess; to be a drunkard.
_alicui bibere dare_[1]—to give some one to drink.
_alicui bibere ministrare_—to serve some one with drink.
_propīno tibi hoc (poculum, salutem)_—I drink your health.
_bene tibi_ or _te!_—your health!
_inter pocula_—whilst drinking; at table.
_exhaurire poculum_—to empty a cup at a draught.
[1] These forms _dare bibere_, etc., are not Graecisms but old usages
which have survived in conversational language. For the infinitive
(the dative of the verbal noun) used in this way compare Verg. Aen. 1.
527 _non nos aut ferro Libycos populare penates venimus_; Plaut. Bacc.
iv. 3. 18 _parasitus modo venerat aurum petere._