paedagogium

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

paedăgōgīum, ii, n., = παιδαγωγεῖον,

I the place where boys of servile birth intended for pages were educated , the pages’ hall (not ante-Aug.), Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 13.—

II Transf.

A In gen., the boys in a paedagogium: paedagogium pretiosā veste succingitur, Sen. Vit. Beat. 17, 2; id. Ep. 123, 7.—

B In partic., boys reared for vice : ingenuae conditionis paedagogia, Suet. Ner. 28; cf. Plin. 33, 12, 54, § 152.