pistrīnum | pristrīnum (noun N) : (, Plaut. Pers. 3, 3, 15 Ritschl; id. Ps. 5, 1, 9 Fleck.), , pistor
* A place where corn is pounded, a pounding-mill, mill; usually worked by horses or asses; but sometimes a lazy or otherwise bad slave was forced to perform this labor (cf. mola).
* Lit.: ut ferratus in pistrino aetatem conteras,Plaut. Bacch. 4, 6, 11: in pistrinum tradi,id. Most. 1, 1, 16: in pristrino credo, ut convenit fore,id. Ps. 5, 1, 9: te in pistrinum, Dave, dedam usque ad necem,Ter. And. 1, 2, 28: oratorem in judicium, tamquam in aliquod pistrinum, detrudi et compingi videbam,Cic. de Or. 1, 11, 46; Pall. 1, 42.—As a term of reproach, of bad slaves: pristrinorum civitas,Plaut. Pers. 3, 3, 15.
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* Because bread was usually baked at the mill, a bakery: exercere pistrinum,Suet. Aug. 4: aliquem in pistrinum submittere,Sen. Ep. 90, 22; swine were fed there upon the bran,Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 27.
* A wearisome, oppressive labor, drudgery: tibi mecum in eodem est pistrino, Crasse, vivendum,Cic. de Or. 2, 33, 144.

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