The corpus record — Latin

ballistarius

ballistarius · m

A maker of ballistœ

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Where it lives

Poenulus 1 · 0.91/10k

What it meant

ballistārĭus — Lewis & Short

ballistārĭus (balist-; and in Gloss. ballistrārĭus), ii, m.1. ballista.

A A maker of ballistœ, Dig. 50, 6, 6: COLLEGIVM BALLISTARIORVM., Inscr. Orell. 4066.—

B One who discharges the ballista, a slinger, Veg. Mil. 2, 2; Amm. 16, 2, 5.

In the wild

ballistario Plautus, Poenulus 1.1

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.