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Mediastinus

Mediastinus · m

a common servant, drudge

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Where it lives

Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Res Rustica, Books I-IX 3 · 0.38/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

mĕdĭastīnus — Lewis & Short

mĕdĭastīnus, i, m.id.,

I a common servant, drudge, employed in all kinds of menial occupations (class.): tu illi mediastinus, Cato ap. Non. 143, 9: atque bubulcus, Lucil. ib. 7: exercitus collectus ex senibus desperatis, ex agresti luxuria, ex rusticis mediastinis, decoctoribus, Cic. Cat. 2, 3, 5 (dub.): tu mediastinus tacitā prece rura petebas, Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 14; Col. 2, 13, 7; 1, 9, 3: Prodicus instituens quam vocant iatralepticen, reunctoribus quoque medicorum, ac mediastinis vectigal invenit, i. e. medical assistants, Plin. 29, 1, 2, § 4; Dig. 4, 9, 1, § 5.

In the wild

mediastinis Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 29.1.p2
mediastinis Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2.12.7
Mediastinus Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1.9.3
mediastinus Horace, Epistulae 1.14.14
mediastinis Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 1.9.6

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