ergastulum

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When some wished to abolish this law, Thraseas, one of the philosophers of high repute, rose to address the Senate to demand that the law be maintained The Ergastulum.=--A subterranean prison, lighted by narrow windows so high that they could not be reached by the hand, was called the ergastulum.

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  • Augustin remembered it as a slaves' chain-prison ( ergastulum ) of boyhood. —  Saint Augustin
  • When some wished to abolish this law, Thraseas, one of the philosophers of high repute, rose to address the Senate to demand that the law be maintained The Ergastulum.=--A subterranean prison, lighted by narrow windows so high that they could not be reached by the hand, was called the ergastulum. —  History Of Ancient Civilization
  • If, notwithstanding, the tillage of the fields by means of chained slaves appeared in subsequent times as a distinct system, and the labourers' prison (-ergastulum-)--an underground cellar with window-aperatures numerous but narrow and not to be reached from the ground by the hand (Colum. —  The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)
  • The hybrid Greek name for the workhouse (-ergastulum-, from --ergaszomai--, after the analogy of -stabulum-, -operculum-) is an indication that this mode of management came to the Romans from a region where the Greek language was used, but at a period when a thorough Hellenic culture was not yet attained 12. —  The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)
  • "In the ergastulum, your honour, with the furca on his neck." —  The Last Galley Impressions and Tales
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  1. Latin, an accommodated form (as if diminutive) of an Italian Greek *ἔργαστρον, from Greek ἐργάζεσθαι, work, labor: see ergastic.
 

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