slaughter-house
SLAUGHTER-HOUSE
*aedes mactandis bestiis destinatae exstructae. ☞ Laniena a butcher’s stall according to Freund and others; but Krebs says that it is the classical term for a slaughter-house.
*aedes mactandis bestiis destinatae exstructae. ☞ Laniena a butcher’s stall according to Freund and others; but Krebs says that it is the classical term for a slaughter-house.
slaughter-house: no exact equiv. Kr. gives *aedes mactandis bestiis instructae: a s. for swine is confectorium, Gloss. Gr. Lat.: the streets were like a s., plenae caedibus viae, Tac. H. 4, 1.