The corpus record — Latin

captator

captator · m

one who eagerly reaches after

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Where it lives

Eclogarum Liber 1 · 3.65/10k
Saturae 4 · 1.61/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Satyricon 2 · 0.66/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 3 1 · 0.5/10k
De Beneficiis 1 · 0.22/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

captātor — Lewis & Short

captātor, ōris, m.id.,

I one who eagerly reaches after, endeavors to obtain, or strives for something (rare; not in Cic.).

I Lit. only in Prud. stef. 5, 17.—

II Trop.: aurae popularis, that courts the popular breeze, Liv. 3, 33, 7.—Esp., one who hunts after legacies, a legacy-hunter, Hor. S. 2, 5, 57; Petr. 141; Juv. 5, 98; 10, 202.

In the wild

captatorque Horace, Satyrarum libri 2.5.57
captator Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 22.7.3
captatore Juvenal, Saturae 2.6.40
captator Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.3.33.7
captator Seneca, De Beneficiis 4.20.3
captator Prudentius, Peristephanon Liber 5.19

6 of 13 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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