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lautumiae

lautumiae · f

a stone-quarry

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Where it lives

In C. Verrem 13 · 1.29/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 2 · 0.93/10k
Poenulus 1 · 0.91/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 39-40 - 39 1 · 0.68/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 37 1 · 0.61/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 26 1 · 0.59/10k
Controversiae 2 · 0.3/10k
Ab urbe condita 3 · 0.06/10k

What it meant

1. lautŭmĭae — Lewis & Short

lautŭmĭae (lātŏmĭae and lātŭ-mĭae), ārum, f., = latomi/a,

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.

2. lautumiae — Walde–Hofmann

lautumiae, lätomiae (beide Formen bei Plaut. überlief.), -ärum f. „Steinbruch, Steingruben; Gefängnis in denselben zu Syrakus* (Paul. Fest. 117, vgl. Varro 1. 1. 5, 151): aus gr. Adronlaı; Jautumiae aus *Aüoroulai (Weise, Saalfeld, Schulze Qu. ep. 69%, Brugmann IF. 11, 104; anders, aber unwrsch., Ernout-Meillet 504 und Güntert Labyrinth 10). lax "fraus? s. Zació. S. 745. laxus s. /angueo. — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. lautumiae, p. 809]

In the wild

lautumiis Plautus, Poenulus 4.2
lautumiis Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.5.69
lautumiae Seneca the Elder, Excerpta Controversiae 9.4
lautumias Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.5.68
lautumias Seneca the Elder, Controversiae 8.4.21
lautumias Seneca the Elder, Excerpta Controversiae 9.4

6 of 24 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. lautumiae (scan p. 370; entry #5852).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. lautumiae (scan p. 809; entry #1513).

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