I.a workshop, manufactory (class.; cf. fabrica).
I. Lit.: “nec enim quicquam ingenuum potest habere officina,” Cic. Off. 1, 42, 150: “instituit officinam Syracusis in regiā maximam,” Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 24, § 54: “armorum,” a manufactory of arms, Caes. B. C. 1, 34; Cic. Phil. 7, 4, 13; Nep. Ages. 3, 2; “for which, ferraria, Auct. B. Afr. 20: aerariorum,” Plin. 16, 6, 8, § 23: “fullonum,” id. 35, 11, 40, § 143: “pictoris,” id. ib.: “plastarum,” id. 35, 12, 45, § 155: “tingentium,” id. 9, 38, 62, § 133: “tonstrinarum,” id. 36, 22, 47, § 165 al.: “promercalium vestium,” a shop in which garments are made for sale, Suet. Gram. 23: “cetariorum,” a place where fish are salted, Col. 8, 17: “officina monetae,” Liv. 6, 20: “dum graves Cyclopum Volcanus ardens urit officinas,” Hor. C. 1, 4, 8.—
2. In partic., in econom. lang. = ornithon, a place where fowls are kept, in order to lay their eggs and hatch their young, a poultry-house or yard, Col. 8, 3, 4.—
B. Transf., a making, formation: “in magnis corporibus facilis officina sequaci materia fuit,” Plin. 11, 2, 1, § 2.—
II. Trop., a workshop, manufactory, laboratory: “mathematici, poëtae, musici, medici denique ex hac tamquam omnium artium officinā profecti sunt,” Cic. Fin. 5, 3, 7: “falsorum commentariorum, et chirographorum officina,” id. Phil. 2, 14, 35: “nequitiae,” id. Rosc. Am. 46, 134: “dicendi,” id. Brut. 8, 32: “sapientiae,” id. Leg. 1, 13, 36: “spirandi pulmo,” Plin. 11, 37, 72, § 188: “rhetoris,” Cic. de Or. 2, 13, 57: “ex rhetorum officinis,” id. Or. 3, 12: “domus ejus officina eloquentiae habita est,” id. ib. 13, 40: “corruptelarum omnis generis,” Liv. 39, 11, 6; cf. “39, 8, 7: crudelitatis,” Val. Max. 3, 1, 2: “humanarum calamitatium,” Sen. Contr. 5, 33, 2.
