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paedagogium

paedagogium · n

the place where boys of servile birth intended for pages were educated

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Where it lives

Adversus Valentinianos 1 · 1.57/10k
De Vita Beata 1 · 1.38/10k
De Tranquillitate Animi 1 · 1.32/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Letters 1 · 0.15/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

paedăgōgīum — Lewis & Short

paedăgōgīum, ii, n., = paidagwgei=on,

I the place where boys of servile birth intended for pages were educated, the pages' hall (not ante-Aug.), Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 13.—

II Transf.

A In gen., the boys in a paedagogium: paedagogium pretiosā veste succingitur, Sen. Vit. Beat. 17, 2; id. Ep. 123, 7.—

B In partic., boys reared for vice: ingenuae conditionis paedagogia, Suet. Ner. 28; cf. Plin. 33, 12, 54, § 152.

In the wild

paedagogia Suetonius, Nero 28.1
paedagogia Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.12.p1
paedagogia Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 20.123.7
paedagogio Tertullian, Adversus Valentinianos 8
paedagogio Pliny the Younger, Letters 7.27.13
paedagogium Seneca, De Vita Beata 7.17.2

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Where it came from

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