Crossword-Solution: ERGASTULUM 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 13

The full-grown man in the mean time is well pleased when he escapes from the ergastulum where he had previously dwelt, and in which he had experienced corporal infliction and corporal restraint.

The slide by which the grain was lowered into the _ergastulum_, the other slide by which the flour, coarse siftings and bran were hauled up, were similarly guarded.

After their corpses had been removed, the floor swabbed up and the murderers turned over to the gloating Scythians to be done to death by impalement, Scythian fashion, with all the tortures Scythian ferocity could devise, the manager went from cellar to cellar, all through the _ergastulum_, enquiring if any prisoner could cook.

The whole movement was made in silence, without a cheer or yell, for, like the porter and the Scythians, the most unconscionable villains in our _ergastulum_ quailed before the truculence of the frontier sergeants.

After the three new centuries were thus constituted, they asked them to decide whether they would accept as comrades and associates the residue of the inmates of our _ergastulum_ who were marked plainly as runaway slaves.