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A satura was a verse composition, or “medley,” which treated of a variety of subjects in a variety of voices, and is supposed to have had a culinary etymological origin in the term lanx satura, a dish of various fruits offered to the gods.

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BALANCE (derived through the Fr. from the Late Lat. _bilantia_, an apparatus for weighing, from _bi_, two, and _lanx_, a dish or scale), a term originally used for the ordinary beam balance or weighing machine with two scale pans, but extended to include (with or without adjectival qualification) other apparatus for measuring and comparing weights and forces.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

Search by platter and loincloth (_lanx et licium_) became obsolete; search with witnesses present survived.

The Twelve Tables Anonymous

The fable of Dumpling, in the true spirit of _lanx satura_, allows Carey to attack by indirection a complete spectrum of traditional eighteenth-century targets.

A Learned Dissertation on Dumpling (1726) [and] Pudding and Dumpling Burnt to Pot. Or a Compleat Key to the Dissertation on Dumpling (1727) Henry Carey

It bears the title "Satyricon Libri IX" from satura, sc. lanx, "a full dish".

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

_Satura_ (or _Satira_) is from _lanx saturu_, the medley or hodge-podge,

The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879

_Satura_, which some think to be always an adjective, with _lanx_ understood, though _lanx_, according to

Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War 86 BC-34? BC Sallust 1844

Certe non dubitatur, cujuscunque materiae sit ea lanx, satis legi fieri.

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765

The art world tentatively accepted it as an original, and the lanx was sold at auction in 1992 for £100,000, before being donated to the British Museum.

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Certe non dubitatur, cujuscunque materiae sit ea lanx, satis legi fieri.

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