contubernia
Dictionary entries
- Entry →contubernium, contuberni(i):
Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Military
companionship in a tent; band/brotherhood; shared war tent; apartment/lodging;; cohabitation, concubinage (with/between slaves); attendance on a general;
acc. pl.nom. pl.voc. pl.
Examples
ad Marciam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...instatur a tergo: iam disicietur iste comitatus, iam contubernia ista sublato clamore soluentur. Rapina rerum omnium est: miseri..."Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...ferro invadant. tunc signo inter se dato inrumpunt contubernia, trucidant ignaros, nullo nisi consciis noscente quod caedis initium..."Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...eorum in squalorem maestitiamque compositi per principia per contubernia modo suas iniurias, modo vicinarum civitatium praemia..."