slave-market
SLAVE-MARKET
*locus quo mancipia or corpora servilia proponuntur venalia. Bought in the slave-market de lapide emptus (according to Roman custom).
*locus quo mancipia or corpora servilia proponuntur venalia. Bought in the slave-market de lapide emptus (according to Roman custom).
slave-market: *forum quo mancipia (etc.) veno proponuntur, Kr.: one bought in the s., de lapide emptus, Cic. Pis. 15, 35; so called because s.s were put on a raised stone or platform (catasta): v. Dict. Antiq.