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desultor

desultor · m

a leaper, vaulter

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Where it lives

Suasoriae 1 · 0.97/10k
Amores 1 · 0.64/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k
Ab urbe condita 2 · 0.04/10k

What it meant

dēsultor — Lewis & Short

dēsultor, ōris, m.id.,

I a leaper, vaulter, the technical designation of a sort of riders, who, in the circus-games, leaped from one horse to another without stopping.

I Prop., Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 15; Liv. 23, 29; 44, 9; Manil. 5, 85.—

II Trop., a fickle, inconstant person: amoris, an inconstant lover, Ov. Am. 1, 3, 15; cf. bellorum, Sen. Suas. 1, § 8.

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