For a class at Bryn Mawr, she prepared a Roman feast that included an entire wild boar roasted in a college oven.

It was an even wilder bun fight than a Roman public feast.

Its roots can be traced back to the pagan Roman feast of Luminaria (literally, "the illumination"), when torches and bonfires lit up the early summer night of 29 June.

It was Spanish custom to name a new place after the nearest Roman Catholic feast day.

(They make one think of Latin Roman Catholicism's feasts and processions for local patron saints.)

GUIL: Now mind your tongue, or we'll have it out and throw the rest of you away, like a nightingale at a Roman feast.

As other cooks watched him work, he delivered a short, impressionistic history of ancient Roman feasts.

ROS: Like a nightingale at a Roman feast.

No one needs - and few want - a Roman feast.

There was a vision of a Roman feast like that of Trimalchio, with a horror in a covered platter.