Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Ergastŭlum

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Ergastŭlum

A prison and place of correction attached to the farms and country-villas of the Romans, in which those of the slave familia who were kept in fetters (compediti, nexi, vincti) were lodged and made to work in irons; whereas the rest, who were not chained, were provided with separate accommodation (cellae, contubernia) in other parts of the establishment (Columell. i. 6.3; cf. 8.16; Apul. Apol. p. 482; Brut. in Cic. Fam. xi. 13).

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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