pansam

Updated: May 24, 2025

The kitchen of each villa certainly was not furnished with such ingenuity, expense or thought as the stories of Roman gormandising would have led us to expect. In the house of the Aedile so called from the fact that 'Pansam Aed. is inscribed in red characters by the doorway the cook seems to have been employed in frying eggs at the moment when increasing danger put him to flight.

Charles Morris - The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire