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flagitator

flagitator · m

an importunate asker

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Where it lives

De Bissula 1 · 27.25/10k
Casina 1 · 1.29/10k
Mostellaria 1 · 1.04/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 6-10 - 8 1 · 0.77/10k
Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 2 1 · 0.56/10k
Brutus 1 · 0.4/10k
Res Gestae 3 · 0.24/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Ab urbe condita 2 · 0.04/10k

What it meant

flāgĭtātor — Lewis & Short

flāgĭtātor, ōris, m.id.,

I an importunate asker, demander, dun (rare but class.): eicite ex animo curam atque alienum aes: Ne quis formidet flagitatorem suum, Plaut. Cas. prol. 24; cf. id. Most. 3, 2, 81; so of a dunning creditor, Gell. 17, 6, 10.—Transf.: hunc video flagitatorem, non illum quidem tibi molestum, sed assiduum tamen et acrem fore, Cic. Brut. 5, 18 (see the passage in connection).—

(b) With gen.: triumphi ante victoriam flagitator, Liv. 8, 12, 9: pugnae, id. 2, 45, 18.

In the wild

flagitator Ausonius, De Bissula 1.4
flagitatorem Cicero, Brutus 18
flagitatores Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 18.8.6
flagitatorum Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 21.16.17
flagitator Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.8.12.9
flagitator Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 2 p56

6 of 12 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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