pransus+paratus

prandĕo, di (prandidi, Diom. p. 364), sum, 2, v. n. and a. [prandium].

Neutr., to take breakfast, to breakfast (v. prandium;

class.): hic rex cum aceto pransurus est et sale,

Plaut. Rud. 4, 2, 32:

prandi in navi,

id. Men. 2, 3, 50:

prandi perbene,

id. ib. 5, 9, 81:

Caninio consule scito neminem prandisse (because he was elected in the afternoon, and resigned his office on the following morning),

Cic. Fam. 7, 30, 1:

sic prandete, commilitones, tamquam apud inferos coenaturi,

Val. Max. 3, 2, 3:

ad satietatem,

Suet. Dom. 21; Plin. 28, 5, 14, § 56:

prandebat sibi quisque deus,

Juv. 13, 46.—

Act., to breakfast on any thing, to take as a breakfast or luncheon; or, in gen., to eat:

calidum prandisti prandium,

Plaut. Poen. 3, 5, 14:

luscinias prandere,

Hor. S. 2, 3, 245:

olus,

id. Ep. 1, 17, 13.—Hence, pransus, a, um, P. a., that has breakfasted (like potus, that has drunk):

pransus non avide,

Hor. S. 1, 6, 127; 1, 5, 25:

pransa Lamia,

id. A. P. 340. —Because soldiers were accustomed to eat before an engagement; hence, pransus paratus, or curatus et pransus, of soldiers, fed, i. e. ready, fit for fighting: exercitus pransus, paratus, Cato ap. Gell. 15, 13, 5; Varr. ap. Non. 459, 2:

ut viri equique curati et pransi essent,

Liv. 28, 14: pransus, potus, overfed, gluttonous:

adde inscitiam pransi, poti, oscitantis ducis,

Cic. Mil. 21, 56.