receptaculum

rĕceptācŭlum, i, n. [id.], a place to receive or keep things in, a reservoir, magazine, receptacle.

I.

In gen.:

corpus quasi vas est aut aliquod animi receptaculum,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 22, 52:

cibi et potionis (alvus),

id. N. D. 2, 54, 136:

frugibus,

Tac. G. 16:

cibi receptaculum ventriculus, Lact. Opif. Dei, 11: avium,

Col. 8, 15, 4:

aquatilium animalium,

id. 8, 1, 3:

praedarum,

Plin. Pan. 36, 1:

olei,

Pall. 1, 20, 2:

cloaca maxima, receptaculum omnium purgamentorum urbis,

Liv. 1, 56, 2:

aquae,

a reservoir, Vitr. 8, 7; cf.

Nili,

Tac. A. 2, 61:

ignium,

Vulg. Exod. 27, 3. —

II.

In partic., a place of refuge, a lurking-place, shelter, retreat, = locus ad receptum aptus (so usually):

castra sunt victori receptaculum, victo perfugium,

Liv. 44, 39:

(Sicilia) illud receptaculum classibus nostris,

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 1, § 3:

pro castello ac receptaculo turrim facere,

Caes. B. C. 2, 8; cf. Cic. Pis. 5, 11; and:

castella diruit, ne receptaculo hostibus essent,

Liv. 9, 41, 6:

Capua receptaculum aratorum,

Cic. Agr. 2, 23, 89; Caes. B. G. 7, 14:

servitiis ex Achaiā fugientibus receptacula Macedonia erat,

a rendezvous, Liv. 41, 23; cf. id. 8, 11.— With gen.:

illud tibi oppidum receptaculum praedae fuit,

a hiding-place for booty, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 23, § 59:

receptaculum adversae pugnae,

a place of refuge, Liv. 6, 33:

hostium,

id. 1, 33:

receptaculum fugae,

id. 8, 9;

with which cf. exsulum,

Curt. 8, 2, 12:

perfugarum,

Tac. A. 14, 29:

receptaculum habuere castra sociorum,

Just. 2, 4, 30; 9, 1, 2:

perdices spinā et frutice sic muniunt receptaculum,

their nest, Plin. 10, 33, 51, § 160:

(mors) aeternum nihil sentiendi receptaculum,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 40, 117.