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conciliator

conciliator · m

He who provides, prepares

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Where it lives

What it meant

concĭlĭātor — Lewis & Short

concĭlĭātor, ōris, m.id..

I He who provides, prepares, or causes a thing; an author, founder, promoter, etc. (in good prose, but not in Cic.; cf. however: conciliatrix and conciliatricula): suillae carnis, who prepares it savorily, makes it palatable, Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 8: nuptiarum, Nep. Att. 12, 2: proditionis, Liv. 27, 15, 17: adfinitatis atque amicitiae, Suet. Aug. 48; cf. Tac. A. 1, 58: piscis conciliator capturae (piscium), by which other fishes are caught, a decoy, Plin. 9, 59, 85, § 181 sq.
II A procurer (in love-matters), Vop. Carin. 16, 5.

In the wild

6 of 12 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.