noun
lautŭmĭae
Meaning
- a stone-quarry
lautŭmĭae (lātŏmĭae and lātŭ-mĭae), ārum, f., = λατομία,
I. a stone-quarry.
I. In gen.:
vel in lautumiis vel in pistrino mavelim Agere aetatem, quam, etc., Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 5: latomiae lapidariae, id. Capt. 3, 5, 65.—II. In partic., a prison cut out of the rock.
A. At Syracuse:
carcer Syracusis vocantur latomiae, Varr. L. L. 5, § 151 Müll.; v. in the foll.: lautumias Syracusanas omnes audistis, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 27, § 68; 2, 5, 57, § 148.—B. The state prison in Rome, on the north-eastern side of the capitol, usually called Tullianum, Varr. L. L. 5, § 151:
principes Aetolorum Romam deducti et in Lautumias conjecti sunt, Liv. 37, 3, 8; 26, 27, 3; 32, 26, 17; 39, 44, 7.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
lautumiae or lātomiae ārum, f
, λατομίαι, a quarry (in which condemned slaves were worked), prison, place for convict labor: Syracusanae.—Esp., the state prison, northeast of the capitol: in Lautumias coniecti, L.