Latibulum is seen to be a hiding place for different animals and even of men, and also a refuge (figurative): cum etiam se _ferae_ latibulis tegant, Rab. Post. 42; repente te tamquam _serpens_ a latibulis intulisti, Vatin. 4; defendendi facilis est cautio non solum latibulis occultorum _locorum_, sed etiam tempestatum moderatione et conversione (of pirates), Flacc. 13, 31; ego autem volo aliquod emere latibulum et perfugium _doloris_ mei, Att. XII, 13, 2. Pabulum is used not only of food for animals but also, in poetry, of food for men, and sometimes for the pastures, or feeding places. Its figurative meaning is also quite common: _bubus_ pabulum parare oportet, Cato, R. R. 54, 1; pabula carpsit _ovis_, Ov. F. 4, 750; ferae _pecudes persultant_ pabula laeta, Lucr. 1, 14; novitas mundi pabula dura tulit, miseris _mortalibus_ ampla, Lucr. 5, 944; si animus habet aliquod tamquam pabulum _studii_ atque _doctrinae_, C. 49; sed fugitare decet simulacra et pabula _amoris_, Lucr. 4, 1063. Stabulum has its literal and general meaning of standing-place in only two examples: neutrubi _habeam stabile_ stabulum, siquid divorti fuat, Aul. 233; nusquam stabulum _confidentiae_, Most. 350. Most frequently it means a stable for animals or lair of wild beasts: neque iam stabulis gaudet _pecus_ aut arator igni, Hor. C. 1, 4, 3; itur in antiquam silvam, stabula alta _ferarum_, Aen. 6, 179. The agricultural writers use it in speaking of a variety of animals, birds and fishes: _pecudibus_ sient stabula, Col. 1, 6, 4; _avium_ cohortalium stabula (an aviary), Col. 8, 1; ut sit _pavonum_ stabulum, Col. 8, 11, 3; hac ratione stabulis ordinatis _aquatile pecus_ inducemus, Col. 8, 17, 7; absint et picti squalentia terga lacerti pinguibus a stabulis (of bees), Georg. 4, 14. It also means a cottage, a hut, a dwelling like a stable: cum Catilina _pastorum_ stabula praedari coepisset, Sest. 12; pueros ab eo ad stabula _Larentiae uxori_ educandos datos, Liv. 1, 4, 7. A number of times the context shows it applied to a house of ill fame: pistorum _amicas_, quae tibi olant stabulum stratumque, Poen. 267. Twice it is applied to persons as a term of reproach: _ipsa quae_ sis stabulum flagitii, Truc. 587; faciam uti proinde ut est dignus vitam colat, Acheruntis pabulum, stabulum _nequitiae_, Cas. 160. In the last example pabulum is also used with an emotional tone. Vocabulum is a name or appellation, the name of the thing itself being expressed, if at all, in the genitive, or in the nominative with vocabulum in the ablative: si res suum _nomen_ et proprium vocabulum non habet, De Or. III, 159; deligitur artifex talium vocabulo _Locusta_, Tac. A. 12, 66. It also signifies as a grammatical term, a noun, as opposed to a verb: Aristotelis orationis duas partes esse dicit, vocabula et _verba_, ut homo et equus, et legis et currit, Varro, L. L. 8.