Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Merenda

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

MEREN'DA. One of the Roman meals taken early in the afternoon, which we might translate a luncheon; in which sense the word is still retained by the inhabitants of modern Italy. Plaut. Most. iv. 2. 49. Calpurn. Ecl. v. 61., where the ninth hour in summer is called late for the merenda of rustics.