λατομία
From LSJ
Ὁ αὐτὸς ἔφησε τὸν μὲν ὕπνον ὀλιγοχρόνιον θάνατον, τὸν δὲ θάνατον πολυχρόνιον ὕπνον → Plato said that sleep was a short-lived death but death was a long-lived sleep
English (LSJ)
ἡ,
A quarrying of stone, PHib.71.7 (iii B.C.), IG42(1).102.17 (Epid.); τῷ στρώματι ib.40: mostly in pl., = quarries, Man. ap.J.Ap.1.26, Str.8.5.7, AP11.253 (Lucill.); of the quarries at Syracuse used as a prison, Plu.2.334c; also in sg., PCair.Zen.176.215 (iii B.C.).
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
λᾱτομία: ἡ, = λατομεῖον, τὸ πλεῖστον κατὰ πληθ., ὡς τὸ Λατ. lautumiae, Στράβ. 367, Ἀνθ. Π. 11, 253, πρβλ. Αἰλ. Ποικ. Ἱστ. 12. 44· τὰ ἐν Συρακούσαις λατομεῖα ἐχρησίμευον ὡς φυλακαί, Πλούτ. 2. 334C· πρβλ. λιθοτομία.
