The corpus record — Latin

exactor

exactor · m

A driver-out

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Where it lives

De Providentia 1 · 2.44/10k
De Cultu Feminarum 1 · 1.95/10k
De Spectaculis 1 · 1.57/10k
De Clementia 1 · 1.2/10k
Divus Julius 1 · 1.03/10k
Apologeticum 2 · 1/10k
Alexander Severus 1 · 0.94/10k
De Ira 2 · 0.9/10k
De Beneficiis 4 · 0.88/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 3 · 0.65/10k
Peristephanon Liber 1 · 0.57/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k

Densest 12 of 19 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

exactor — Lewis & Short

exactor, ōris, m.id.; cf. also exactio. *

I A driver-out, expeller: regum (Junii Valeriique), Liv. 9, 17, 11.—

II A demander, exactor (cf.: redemptor, manceps, magister; also: publicanus, portitor).

A In gen.: operis, i. e. an overseer, superintendent, enforcer of any kind of labor, Col. 3, 13, 10; cf. Liv. 45, 37; so, assiduus studiorum, Quint. 1, 3, 14; cf.: asper recte loquendi, id. 1, 7, 34: molestissimus sermonis Latini, Suet. Gramm. 22: supplicii, an executioner, Liv. 2, 5; cf. Tac. A. 11, 37, and 3, 14 fin.; cf. Vulg. Luc. 12, 58.—

B In partic., a collector of taxes, a tax gatherer, * Caes. B. C. 3, 32, 4; Liv. 28, 25, 9; Firm. 4, 3 al.; Dig. 50, 4, 18, § 8; or of other debts due the state, ib. 22, 1, 33. (Not in Cic.; but cf. exactio.)

In the wild

exactores Pliny the Younger, Letters 9.37.3
exactor Seneca, De Ira 2.28.7
exactor Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 47.7
exactor Seneca, De Clementia 1.19.2
exactore Tertullian, Apologeticum 36.3
exactor Suetonius, Divus Julius 65.1

6 of 35 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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