Crossword-Solution: LANX 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

For _satira_ is not properly a substantive, but an adjective; to which the word _lanx_ (in English a “charger” or “large platter”) is understood: so that the Greek poem made according to the manners of a Satyr, and expressing his qualities, must properly be called satirical, and not satire.

The Latin expression is taken from _lanx satura_, a dish offered as a sacrifice to the gods, and containing different kinds of fruit.

The name _Satura_ (or _Satira_) is from _lanx saturu_, the medley or hodge-podge, "quae referta variis multisque primitiis in sacro apud priscos diis inferebatur." Mommsen supposes it to have been the "masque of the full men" (_saturi_), enacted at a popular festival, while others have connected it with the Greek Satyric Drama.

These songs gradually developed a concomitant form of dialogue styled saturæ, a term denoting "miscellany", and derived perhaps from the _Satura lanx_, a charger filled with the first-fruits of the year's produce, which was offered to Bacchus and Ceres.[3] In Ennius, the "father of Roman satire", and Varro, the word still retained this old Roman sense.

Last, not least, is the Corbridge Lanx, the only surviving piece of the five, and probably the finest piece of Roman engraved silver found in these islands, an oblong dish measuring 15 × 19 inches, weighing 148 ounces, and ornamented with figures of deities from classical mythology.