Anonymous ID: 4fa83a April 24, 2023, 6:27 a.m. No.18744648   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4674

An ergastulum (plural: ergastula) was a Roman building used to hold in chains dangerous slaves or to punish other slaves. The ergastulum was usually built as a deep, roofed pit below ground level, large enough to allow the slaves to work within it, and containing narrow spaces in which they slept. Ergastula were common structures on all slave-using farms (latifundia). The etymology is disputed between two possible Greek roots: ergasterios "workshop" and ergastylos "pillar to which slaves are tethered.

 

" "Again, it is the established custom of all men of caution to inspect the inmates of the workhouse ergastuli, to find out whether they are carefully chained, whether the places of confinement are quite safe and properly guarded, whether the overseer has put anyone in fetters or removed his shackles without the master's knowledge."

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergastulum