Pistrînum, pistríni, & pistrîna, næ, pe. pr. Suet. Pl. A bakehouse: a mll: a grinding house. A place, where before mils inuented. men vsed to braye their corne in morters, which because of the vntollerable paine, they vsed as a prison to punishe theyr bondmen and slaues offending their maisters.Dedere aliquem in pistrinum. Ter. To cast into the mil or grinding house.Detrudere & compingere aliquem in quoddam pistrinum.Cic.Tradere aliquem in pistrinum.Cic.Viuere in codem pistrino cum aliquo. Cice. To liue in the same prison with one.
Pristinus, pen. cor. Adiectiuum. That is certaine yeares, moneths or dayes past within the time that we may remember. Also first, former.Pristinis orbati muneribus.Cic.Mores pristini.Cic.Old fashions.Senatum ad pristinam suam seueritatem reuocaui, Cice.I brought the Senate againe to the old & former seueritie.Aetas pristina. Claud. Dignitas pristina. Cicero. Bonitas.Cic. Gloria. Virg.Coniux pristinus.Virg. Labor pristious. Cic.Vetus consuetudo fori, & pristinus mos iudiciorum.Cic.Odio pristino incensa mulier.Cic.Recidere ad pristinum statum.Cic.
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pistrīna, ae, f. [pistor], a bakehouse, bakery, Plin. 18, 9, 20, 86; 19, 8, 52, 167; Varr. L. L. 5, 31, 138; Lucil. ap. Charis. p. 55 P.
pistrīnum (pristrīnum, Plaut. Pers. 3, 3, 15 Ritschl; id. Ps. 5, 1, 9 Fleck.), i, n. [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). I.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.—II.Transf.A. 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.—B.A wearisome, oppressive labor, drudgery: tibi mecum in eodem est pistrino, Crasse, vivendum, Cic. de Or. 2, 33, 144.