The corpus record — Latin

fabulator

fabulator · m

a narrator

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Noctes Atticae 2 · 0.18/10k
Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant — Lewis & Short

fābŭlātor, ōris, m.id.,

I a narrator, a story-teller (post-Aug.).

I In gen.: elegantissimus, Sen. Ep. 122 med.: lectoribus aut fabulatoribus arcessitis, Suet. Aug. 78; Gell. 3, 10, 11; Vulg. Baruch, 3, 23.—

II A fabulist: Aesopus ille e Phrygia fabulator, Gell. 2, 29, 1.

In the wild

fabulator Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 20.122.15
fabulatoribus Suetonius, Divus Augustus 78.2
fabulator Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 3.10.11
fabulator Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 2.29.1

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.