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carcer, ĕris, m. [Sicilian karkaron; cf. O. Müll. Etrusk. 1, p. 13; etym. dub.; cf. scrinium], an enclosed place; hence,I.A prison, jail (syn.:A.custodia, vincula): si tresviri me in carcerem conpegerint,
Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 3; id. Poen. 3, 3, 79; Lucr. 3, 1016; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 9, § 22 sq.; Liv. 6, 36, 112 al.:carcer, quem vindicem scelerum majores nostri esse voluerunt,
Cic. Cat. 2, 12, 27.Poet., of the custody of the winds, Verg. A. 1, 54; Ov. M. 4, 663; 14, 224; id. F. 2, 456;B.and of the lower world: carcer inferorum,
Sen. Herc. Fur. 1222:Ditis,
Luc. 6, 797.— Trop., of the chains of the body:qui ex corporum vinculis tamquam e carcere evolaverunt,
Cic. Rep. 6, 14, 14; so id. Tusc. 1, 30, 74; Luc. 6, 721.—Esp., the Roman State-prison, close to the Forum, at the foot of the Capitoline Hill, on the right of the Sacra Via, built by Ancus Marcius, Liv. 1, 33, 8; extended under ground by Servius Tullius; hence this part of the prison is called Tullianum. Varr. L. L. 5, § 151, p. 42 Bip.; Cic. Sull. 25, 70; Sall. C. 55, 3; Liv. 1, 33, 8; Tac. A. 3, 51 al.; cf.:C.in inferiorem demissus carcerem,
Liv. 34, 44, 8:in carcerem conditi,
id. 29, 22, 7; cf. also Fest. p. 356 Müll., and Becker. Antiq. 1, 262 sq.; v. also Tullianum and robur, II. A.—Meton.a.The imprisoned criminals: in me carcerem effudistis, [p. 291] Cic. Pis. 7, 16.—b.As a term of reproach ( = carcerarius), jail-bird, scapegallows: carcer vix carcere dignus, Lucil. ap. Don. Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 26; Ter. Phorm. l. l.—II.The barrier or starting-place in the race-course (opp. meta or calx; v. h. vv.); usu. in plur., carceres, Varr. L. L. 5, § 153 Müll.; Lucr. 2, 264; 4, 990; Cic. Brut. 47, 173; Verg. G. 1, 512; * Hor. S. 1, 1, 114 al. —In sing. (mostly poet.), Enn. Ann. ap. Cic. Div. 1, 48, 107 (v. 88 Vahl.); Tib. 1, 4, 32 (imitated by Ov. H. 18, 166); Auct. Her. 4, 3, 4; Verg. G. 3, 104; id. A. 5, 145 Serv.; Ov. M. 10, 652; id. Tr. 5, 9, 29; 5, 12, 26; Suet. Caes. 21; Stat. Th. 6, 522.—B.Trop., the commencement, beginning, of a course of action or of a condition:a quibus carceribus decurrat ad metas,
Varr. R. R. 1, 3; so id. ib. 2, 7, 1:ad carceres a calce revocari,
i.e. to begin life anew, Cic. Sen. 23, 83; cf.:cum aequalibus, quibus cum tamquam e carceribus emissus sis,
id. Lael. 27, 101.
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