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laudator

laudator · m

a praiser; a eulogizer, panegyrist

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Where it lives

De Arte Poetica liber 2 · 6.47/10k
De Otio 1 · 5.1/10k
Cum Populo Gratias Egit 1 · 3.79/10k
Pro L. Cornelio Balbo 2 · 2.94/10k
Pro L. Flacco 3 · 2.75/10k
Pro Fonteio 1 · 2.2/10k
De Provinciis Consularibus In Senatu 1 · 1.95/10k
de Origine et Situ Germanorum Liber 1 · 1.81/10k
Topica 1 · 1.46/10k
Florida 1 · 1.27/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
De Partitione Oratoria 1 · 1.02/10k

Densest 12 of 35 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

laudātor — Lewis & Short

laudātor, ōris, m.id.,

I a praiser; a eulogizer, panegyrist (class.).

I In gen.: integritatis et elegantiae, Cic. Att. 6, 2, 8: auctores et laudatores voluptatis, id. Sest. 10, 23: rerum mearum gestarum laudatores, id. Red. in Sen. 6, 16: temporis acti, Hor. A. P. 173: derisor vero plus laudatore movetur, id. ib. 433: formae, Ov. H. 21, 33: tuus, Cic. Fin. 1, 41, 90.—

II In partic.

A In a court of justice, one who bears favorable testimony to the character of the accused, a eulogizer, panegyrist: excitabo laudatores, quos ad hoc judicium ... deprecatores hujus periculi missos videtis, Cic. Balb. 18, 41; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 22, § 57.—

B One who pronounces a funeral oration, Liv. 2, 47; Plin. Ep. 2, 1, 6.

In the wild

laudatores Cicero, Pro L. Cornelio Balbo 41
laudatore Ovid, Epistulae 21.33
laudatoribus Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.4.3
laudator Seneca the Elder, Excerpta Controversiae 2.7
laudator Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.2.47.11
laudatoribus Cicero, Pro A. Cluentio 56

6 of 54 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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