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imitator

imitator · m

an imitator

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Where it lives

De Arte Poetica liber 2 · 6.47/10k
Pro M. Marcello 1 · 3.61/10k
Tacitus 1 · 3.24/10k
Atticus 1 · 2.83/10k
In P. Vatinium testem interrogatio 1 · 2.23/10k
Epistularum 2 · 2.2/10k
Epistulae 1 · 1.01/10k
Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
De Oratore 3 · 0.5/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 2 · 0.46/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Epitome Rerum Romanorum 1 · 0.38/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ĭmĭtātor — Lewis & Short

ĭmĭtātor, ōris, m.id.,

I an imitator, copyist, mimic (class.).

(a) With gen.: permulti imitatores principum exsistunt, Cic. Leg. 3, 14, 31: Thucydidis, Quint. 10, 1, 74: Atticorum, id. ib. 115; 12, 10, 14: veterum facinorum, Cic. Vatin. 9, 22: Brutus erat stulti sapiens imitator, Ov. F. 2, 717: fulminis, id. M. 14, 618.—

(b) Absol.: natura fingit homines et creat imitatores et narratores facetos, Cic. de Or. 2, 54, 219: nec desilies imitator in artum, Hor. A. P. 134: o imitatores, servum pecus, id. Ep. 1, 19, 19.

In the wild

imitator Cornelius Nepos, Atticus 18
imitator Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 10.1.74
imitator Jerome, Epistulae. Selections. 22.35
imitatoremque Cicero, Philippicae 3.8
imitatores Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 12.10.14
imitatores Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 8.52.p1

6 of 29 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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