Colasterion

Colasterion (from the Greek word for "instrument of punishment"[1] or "house of correction"[2]) was published by John Milton with his Tetrachordon on 4 March 1645. The tract is a response to an anonymous pamphlet attacking the first edition of The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce. Milton makes no new arguments, but harshly takes to task the "trivial author".

  1. ^ Dennis Danielson (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Milton, Cambridge University Press, 1999, p. 12.
  2. ^ "κολαστήριον". A Greek–English Lexicon.