LATOMIA, properly signifies a quarry, or place whence stones are dug. The word comes from the Greek Λατ. stone, and τομή, I cut. These were anciently used as gaols for criminals.—Dionysius had a place of this kind dug in a rock near Syracuse, where an infinite number of people were shut up. Cicero reproaches Verres with imprisoning Roman Citizens in Latomia; so that latomia became a general name for a prison, and the prisoners inclosed in them were called latomarii.