The corpus record — Latin

caduceator

caduceator · m

A herald

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Where it lives

Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 31 3 · 2.37/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 37 2 · 1.22/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 32 1 · 0.94/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 33 1 · 0.87/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 35 1 · 0.79/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 44 1 · 0.79/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 34 1 · 0.67/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 26 1 · 0.59/10k
Historiae Alexandri Magni 4 · 0.54/10k
Satyricon 1 · 0.33/10k
Ab urbe condita 11 · 0.21/10k
Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

cādūcĕātor — Lewis & Short

cādūcĕātor, ōris, m.caduceum.

I A herald, an officer sent with a flag of truce: caduceatores = legati pacem petentes. Cato caduceatori, inquit, nemo homo nocet, Paul. ex Fest. p. 47: bellantes ac dissidentes interpretum oratione sedantur, unde secundum Livium legati pacis caduceatores appellantur, Serv. ad Verg. A. 4, 242; Liv. 26, 17, 5; 31, 38, 9; 32, 32, 5; 37, 45, 4; 44, 46, 1; Curt. 3, 1, 6; 4, 2, 15 al.—

II A servant to a priest, Arn. 5, p. 174.

In the wild

caduceator Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.32.32.5
caduceatorem Livy, Ab urbe condita 2.26.17.5
caduceatoribus Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 43-44 - 44 p48
caduceator Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 35 p34
caduceatoribus Livy, Ab urbe condita 4.44.46.1
caduceatore Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 31-32 - 31 p28

6 of 29 attestations shown.

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.