The corpus record — Latin

grassator

grassator · m

A vagabond

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Where it lives

De Fato 1 · 2.02/10k
Divus Augustus 2 · 1.49/10k
Divus Julius 1 · 1.03/10k
Res Gestae 12 · 0.94/10k
Satyricon 2 · 0.66/10k
Excerpta Controversiae 1 · 0.47/10k
Saturae 1 · 0.4/10k
Controversiae 1 · 0.15/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k
Noctes Atticae 1 · 0.09/10k
Institutio Oratoria 1 · 0.06/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

grassātor — Lewis & Short

grassātor, ōris, m.id..

I A vagabond, idler: poëticae artis honos non erat. Si qui in ea re studebat, aut sese ad convivia applicabat, grassator vocabatur, Cato ap. Gell. 11, 2, 5.—

II A disorderly person, one who goes rioting about (esp. at night, whether for fun and enjoyment or for robbery), a rioter, a waylayer, street-robber, footpad: hoc modo viator quoque bene vestitus causa grassatori fuisse dicetur, cur ab eo spoliaretur, Cic. Fat. 15, 34: grassatorum plurimi palam se ferebant succincti ferro, Suet. Aug. 32: grassatores et sicarii, id. Caes. 72: nocturni grassatoris insidiosa violentia, Gell. 20, 1, 8; Quint. 12, 1, 38: ferro subitus grassator agit rem, Juv. 3, 305.

In the wild

grassator Juvenal, Saturae 1.3.305
grassatores Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 14.2.7
grassatoribus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 17.13.31
grassator Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 12.1.39
grassatores Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 28.2.11
grassatoribus Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 24.3.2

6 of 25 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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