I.an enclosure, a wall (class.): “maceriam sine calce ex caementis et silice altam pedes quinque facito,” Cato, R. R. 15; cf. Varr. R. R. 1, 14, 4; 3, 5, 12: “quid maceria illa ait in horto, quaest quae in noctes singulas latere fit minor?” Plaut. Truc. 2, 2, 49: “hanc in horto maceriam jube dirui,” Ter. Ad. 5, 7, 10: “herba in maceriis nascens,” Plin. 25, 5, 19, § 43: “nulla maceria, nulla casa,” Cic. Fam. 16, 18, 2: post villarum macerias, Sisenn. ap. Non. 141, 23: “fossam et maceriam sex in altitudinem pedum praeduxerant,” Caes. B. G. 7, 69; 7, 70: “maceria ab laeva semitae paulum exstans a fundamenta,” Liv. 42, 15.—
II. Affliction: facere illi satis vis, quanta illius mors sit maceries tibi? Afran. ap. Non. 138, 13 (Com. Rel. v. 150 Rib.).