scaffold
scaffold
subs.
Woodwork: P. ξύλωσις, ἡ.
Met., place of execution: use Ar. and V. ἐπίζηνον τό (lit. executioner’s block).
Be brought to the scaffold, put to death: P. θανατοῦσθαι.
subs.
Woodwork: P. ξύλωσις, ἡ.
Met., place of execution: use Ar. and V. ἐπίζηνον τό (lit. executioner’s block).
Be brought to the scaffold, put to death: P. θανατοῦσθαι.
SCAFFOLD
tabulatum (any boards raised in stories; e.g. by builders): machina (any artificial stage): pulpitum catasta (a scaffold or stage made of boards for some given purpose; pulpitum especially for actors and orators; catasta on which slaves were exposed for sale).
tabulatum (any boards raised in stories; e.g. by builders): machina (any artificial stage): pulpitum catasta (a scaffold or stage made of boards for some given purpose; pulpitum especially for actors and orators; catasta on which slaves were exposed for sale).
scaffold, scaffolding:
I. Lit., the wooden framework:
1. cătasta (a s. made of wood on which slaves were exposed for sale): Tib. 2, 3, 61 (66): Plin.
2. māchĭna (strictly, any contrivance or framework): a builder's s., m. aedificationis, Plin. 19, 2, 8.
3. occasionally expr. by other words: Sen. Ep. 88, 22, speaks of s. rising up from beneath the stage, as, tabulata tacite crescentia, pegmata per se surgentia. One who works on a s., māchio, Isid. Orig. 19, 8: māchĭnārius, Paul. Dig. 9, 2, 31: v. alsoPLATFORM , FRAMEWORK .
II. Meton. to denote capital punishment: expr. by mors (ad mortem duci, Cic. Cat. 1, 1, 3): supplicium capitis (supplicio capitis afficere, to consign to the s., Suet. Gal. 12): also sometimes, securis (executioner's axe): v.TO BEHEAD .
I. Lit., the wooden framework:
1. cătasta (a s. made of wood on which slaves were exposed for sale): Tib. 2, 3, 61 (66): Plin.
2. māchĭna (strictly, any contrivance or framework): a builder's s., m. aedificationis, Plin. 19, 2, 8.
3. occasionally expr. by other words: Sen. Ep. 88, 22, speaks of s. rising up from beneath the stage, as, tabulata tacite crescentia, pegmata per se surgentia. One who works on a s., māchio, Isid. Orig. 19, 8: māchĭnārius, Paul. Dig. 9, 2, 31: v. also
II. Meton. to denote capital punishment: expr. by mors (ad mortem duci, Cic. Cat. 1, 1, 3): supplicium capitis (supplicio capitis afficere, to consign to the s., Suet. Gal. 12): also sometimes, securis (executioner's axe): v.