See ergastulum in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"translation": "He had first paid off the accumulated interest from his father's and grandfather's farm, then from other assets; finally, it had reached the very substance of his body, and he was led by the creditor not into servitude, but into a prison and a place of torture.",
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"translation": "Tryphaena shed tears, deceived by the punishment—for she truly believed the marks to be imprinted on the captives' foreheads—and she began to ask more submissively what prison had intercepted the wanderers, or whose hands had grown so cruel in inflicting this punishment.",
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