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LNS

lautumia, lautumiae

(lātomia, lātomiae)

(lātumia, lātumiae)

lautumiae, latomiae, latumiae

λατομία

Mostly Plural

noun (f., 1^st declension)

a stone-quarry
a prison cut out of the rock
The state prison in Rome, on the north-eastern side of the capitol, usually called

Abbreviations

lautumiae (lātomiae and lātu-miae), ārum, f., = λατομία, a stone-quarry. 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.

— In partic., a prison cut out of the rock. At Syracuse: carcer Syracusis vocantur latomiae, Varr. L. L. 5, § 151 Mull.; v. in the foll.: lautumias Syracusanas omnes audistis, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 27, § 68; 2, 5, 57, § 148.

— 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.