mansio

mansĭo, ōnis, f. [maneo], a staying, remaining, stay, continuance.

I.

Lit. (class.):

is saepe mecum de tua mansione, aut decessione communicat,

Cic. Fam. 4, 4, 5:

mansio Formiis,

id. Att. 9, 5, 1:

excessus e vita et in vita mansio,

id. Fin. 3, 18, 60:

cautior certe est mansio,

id. Att. 8, 15, 2:

diutinae Lemni,

Ter. Phorm. 5, 8, 23: crebrae ad amicam, i. e. visits, Turp. ap. Non. 132, 16.—

II.

Transf. (post-Aug.), a place of abode, a dwelling, habitation.

A.

In gen.:

pecorum mansio,

Plin. 18, 23, 53, § 194:

aestivae, hibernae, vernae, auctumnales,

Pall. 1, 9, 5; 1, 12:

mansionem apud eum faciemus,

Vulg. Joann. 14, 23:

multae mansiones,

id. ib. 14, 2.—

B.

Esp.

1.

Night-quarters, lodging-place, inn; also, as a measure of days' journeys, a stopping or haltingplace, station:

deinde ad primam statim mansionem febrim nactus,

Suet. Tib. 10:

a quo (monte) octo mansionibus distat regio, etc.,

i. e. stations, days' journeys, Plin. 12, 14, 30, § 52:

aquationum ratione mansionibus dispositis,

id. 6, 23, 26, § 102:

continuatis mansionibus,

Just. 13, 8, 5.—

2.

Mala mansio, bad quarters, a kind of punishment in which the culprit was stretched out and tied fast to a board, Dig. 47, 10, 15; 16, 3, 7.