The corpus record — Latin

Cessator

Cessator · m

a loiterer

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Where it lives

Letters to and from Quintus 2 · 1.09/10k
Satyrarum libri 1 · 0.7/10k
Epistulae ad Familiares 1 · 0.09/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Res Gestae 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

cessātor — Lewis & Short

cessātor, ōris, m.id.,

I a loiterer, an idler, a dilatory person: non quo cessator esse solerem, praesertim in litteris, Cic. Fam. 9, 17, 3: de libris, Tyrannio est cessator, id. ad Q. Fr. 3, 5 (6), 6: nequam et cessator Davus, * Hor. S. 2, 7, 100; * Col. 11, 1, 16.

In the wild

cessatores Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 2.29.11
cessator Horace, Satyrarum libri 2.7.100
cessator Cicero, Letters to and from Quintus 3.5.5
cessator Cicero, Letters to and from Quintus 3.5.7
Cessator Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 31.14.7.p1
cessator Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 9.17.3

Where it came from

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