EMEDD Citations for "missilia"

Ian Lancashire
University of Toronto

for the Shakespeare Association of America
San Francisco 1999

  1. Missilia (Latin entry by Sir Thomas Elyot 1538)


    Missilia, thynges whiche the auncient emperours were wonte to caste amonge the people, as breade, cakes, swete oyntem_et, and suche lyke thynges, which was done in the Theatre, in the feastes, called Saturnalia.

© Feb. 1999