ergastulo
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;
abl. sg.dat. sg.
Examples
- G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...matre persuasus est, qui opus muliebre in ergastulo fecit, qui postquam conturbavit et libidinis suae solum vertit, reliquit..." - T
Liber XXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...suis uictos subactosque, Poenus mancipia Romana et ex ergastulo militem uerbis obtereret, postremo pronuntiat Gracchus esse nihil quod..."