paedăgōgīum

ii, n.
I. the place where boys of servile birth intended for pages were educated, the pages' hall (not ante-Aug.), Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 13.—
II. Transf.
A. In gen., the boys in a paedagogium: paedagogium pretiosā veste succingitur, Sen. Vit. Beat. 17, 2; id. Ep. 123, 7.—
B. In partic., boys reared for vice: ingenuae conditionis paedagogia, Suet. Ner. 28; cf. Plin. 33, 12, 54, § 152.
Lewis & Short
A Latin Dictionary, 1879
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