Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Mansiones

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. 

MANSIO'NES (σταθμοί). Stations; or resting-places distributed at certain distances along the high roads; more particularly intended to afford quarters for troops, but also containing houses for the accommodation of travellers, where they could bait their cattle and obtain refreshment; whence the distance from one place to another is sometimes indicated by reckoning the number of mansiones which intervened between them. Suet. Tit. 10. Lamprid. Alex. Sev. 45.

2. Mansiones camelorum. In the East, stations furnished with wells, at which the camels stopped to water. Plin. H. N. xii. 32.