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Columbar

Columbar a kind of pillory, in which the head passed through a hole, like the holes in a pigeon-house, whence the name. (Plaut. Rud. 3.6, 49.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.