The corpus record — Latin

adulator

adulator · m

a low

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Where it lives

Divus Claudius 3 · 10.11/10k
Commodus Antoninus 2 · 5.77/10k
Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
Antoninus Heliogabalus 1 · 1.73/10k
Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k
Res Gestae 11 · 0.86/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 3 · 0.69/10k
Satyricon 2 · 0.66/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 1 · 0.47/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.43/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 2 · 0.17/10k

Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ădūlātor — Lewis & Short

ădūlātor, ōris, m.id.,

I a low, cringing flatterer, a sycophant (homo fallax et levis, ad voluptatem facit ac dicit omnia, nihil ad veritatem, Cic. Lael. 25, 91; cf. id. ib. 25, 93): nolo esse laudator, ne videar adulator, Auct. Her. 4, 21; so Quint. 12, 10, 13; Suet. Vit. 1: versabilium adulatorum, Amm. 14, 11, 2.

Where it came from

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