succidia
From LSJ
Dante Alighieri, Paradiso, XXXIII, v. 145
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
succīdĭa: ae, f. 2. succido.
I A leg or side of meat cut off, esp. of pork; a leg of pork, flitch of bacon, Varr. L.L. 5, § 110 Müll.; id. R. R. 2, 4, 3: jam hortum ipsi agricolae succidiam alteram appellant, their second flitch, Cic. Sen. 16, 56. — *
II Transf., a slaughtering: succidias humanas facere, Cato ap. Gell. 13, 24, 12.
