mediastinus

mĕdĭastīnus, i, m. [medius],

• 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.

mediastīnus, ī, m. (medius; vgl. Prisc. part. XII vers. Aen. 5, 98), ein Sklave, der zu allerhand Verrichtungen geringerer Art gebraucht wurde, beim Ackerbau, im Bade usw., Knecht, Gehilfe, Hausbursche, Aufwärter, Cato fr., Lucil. fr., Colum. u.a.: bei Hor. ep. 1, 14, 14 im Wortspiel mediastinus rura petebas, nunc urbem vilicus optas (hoc est in media urbe – ἄστει – vivens, Acro). – ➳ Jordan Cato ad Marc. fil. de agric. fr. 7 u. Marx Lucil. 512 schreiben mediastrinus.

mediastinus [CL] 1 situated in the middle, central: a (med., of membrane); b (of colour in spectrum). a membrana pulmones et intimum thoracem aequis portionibus per media distinguens. ~um vulgo appellatur D. Edw. Anat. B 4.  b inter hos colores [nigrum et album] ~us est viror Neckam NR II 56. 2 (in temporal sequence) central, intervening. hic ‥ in ~o pro precedentibus et sequentibus ostendendum, totam universitatem rerum omnium esse bonam Bradw. CD 251A. 3 middling, of middle social status. cotidie sarcinarii ~i properabant Ord. Vit. IX 14 p. 594; patre Gileberto ‥ matre Mahalt, civibus Londonie ~is, neque fenerantibus neque officiose negotiantibus W. Fitzst. Thom. 2; ~i qui medium officium habent, id est, nec supremum nec ultimum, ut sunt atriarii Vac. Lib. paup. 286.

mĕdĭastīnus, (15) ī, m. (medius), esclave à tout faire, du dernier rang : Hor. Ep. 1, 14, 14 ; Col. Rust. 2, 13, 7 || assistant [docteur] : Plin. 29, 4 ; Dig. 4, 9, 1, 5.

➳ mediastrinus (?) Cat. d. Non. 143, 9 ; Lucil. Sat. 512.

mediastinus , i. m.
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mediastīnus ī, m

• medius, a common servant, drudge, slave of all work, menial, H.