ergastula
Dictionary entries
- Entry →ergastulum, ergastuli:
Neuter · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
convicts (pl.); chain gang; inmates of a workhouse/penitentiary;; prison; prison on estate where refractory slaves worked in chains; workhouse;
acc. pl.nom. pl.voc. pl.
Examples
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Liber II
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...primum fortuna redit, seruilia soluit agmina, conflato saeuas ergastula ferro 95exeruere manus. nulli gestanda dabantur signa ducis, nisi..." - D
Satura XIV
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...iuueni laetus stridore catenae, quem mire adficiunt inscripta, ergastula, carcer? rusticus expectas ut non sit adultera Largae filia..." - D
Satura VIII
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...sortitus, Pontice, seruum? nempe in Lucanos aut Tusca ergastula mittas. at uos, Troiugenae, uobis ignoscitis et quae turpia..." - D
Satura VI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...Canusinam ulmosque Falernas— quantulum in hoc!—pueros omnes, ergastula tota, quodque domi non est, sed habet uicinus, ematur..." - L
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...illi reddendus est suus, eculei et fidiculae et ergastula et cruces et circumdati defossis corporibus ignes et cadauera..."