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