Dulcia
Confectionery, sweetmeats, “candy.” A general name applied to sweets made with honey, as distinguished from pastry, or sweet dishes made with meal, fruit, milk, etc. See Lamprid. Elagab. 27 and 32; and the articles Diaetetica; Pistor.
Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.
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