Usage examples (4)

• Typically, a macellum sold food and other goods catered to the tastes of the upper classes, and it acquired a reputation of being quite expensive.
• A wall painting in the macellum, the market hall off the main Roman forum in Pompeii, depicts a woman traditionally described as an artist holding a palette against a...
• One victim's name Metzler has origins in German (Middle Rhineland), as an occupational name for a butcher, Middle High German metzeler, from Latin macellarius "dealer in meat,"...
• S. Noflin 'porticum apud macellum hac deorfum?