Book 7.107-115
The Trojans prepare a meal, fruit on top of thin wheat cakes. In hunger, they eat the thin cake as well.
Aeneas primique duces et pulcher Iulus
107
corpora sub ramis deponunt arboris altae
108
instituuntque dapes et adorea liba per herbam
109
subiciunt epulis (sic Iuppiter ipse monebat)
110
et Cereale solum pomis agrestibus augent.
111
Consumptis hic forte aliis ut vertere morsus
112
exiguam in Cererem penuria adegit edendi
113
et violare manu malisque audacibus orbem
114
fatalis crusti patulis nec parcere quadris:
115