ergastulum

'ergastulum' could again breathe and see daylight: and here we have religion.

The Ancient Regime Hippolyte Taine 1860

I am not made for battles in the sunlight — the flashing of swords troubles my sight; it is a disease, I lived too long in the ergastulum.

Salammbo 2003

As he bent his steps towards the purple factories he passed before the ergastulum, which was a long house of black stone built in a square pit with a small pathway all round it and four staircases at the corners.

Salammbo 2003

When on a level with the ergastulum, under a palm tree, a voice was raised, a mournful and supplicant voice.

Salammbo 2003

The general appearance is that of an ergastulum like Umm

The Land of Midian 2003

The parks were broken up, the trenches drained, the doors of the ergastulum open.

Salammbo 2003

Spendius, who had spent three years in the ergastulum, was but imperfectly acquainted with the different quarters.

Salammbo 2003

He had hopes, too, of ultimately catching the good attorney napping, and leading him too, bound and docile, into his ergastulum, although he was himself just now in jeopardy from that quarter.

Wylder's Hand 2003

We all like showing scars received in battle; the wounds of the ergastulum, less.

Surprised by Joy Lewis, C. S. 1955

Yet while it is true that in many ways the slave's lot might be miserable (the ergastulum), and inhuman (the Roman slave might technically not marry), and immoral (Petronius: "nil turpe quod dominus jubet"), yet here too, human nature has risen above its own philosophies, laws, and conventions.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913