Apicius is the title of a collection of Roman cookery recipes, usually thought to have been compiled in the late 4th or early 5th century AD and written in a language that's in many ways closer to Vulgar than to Classical Latin. Apicius is a text to be used in the kitchen. In the earliest printed editions, sometimes under the title Ars magiricus, it was most usually given the overall title De re coquinaria ("On the Subject of Cooking"), and was attributed to an otherwise unknown "Caelius Apicius… (More on Apicius)