Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Lautumia

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

LAUTUM'IA or LATOM'IA (λατομία). Literally a stone-quarry; and, as slaves were confined and made to work in the quarries by way of punishment (Plaut. Poen. iv. 2. 5. Capt. iii. 5. 65.), the same name was also given to any prison excavated out of the quick rock, and below the surface of the soil; such, for instance, as the state prison at Syracuse (Cic. Verr. ii. 5. 27. Dorvill. Iter. Sicul. tom. i. p. 181.); and the one excavated by Servius Tullius under the Capitoline hill at Rome (Varro, L. L. v. 151. Liv. xxvi. 27. xxxii. 26. xxxvii. 3.), of which a section is shown at p. 119., and a view of the interior at p. 121.