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malefactor

malefactor · m

an evildoer, malefactor

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Where it lives

Bacchides 1 · 1.01/10k

What it meant

mălĕfactor — Lewis & Short

mălĕfactor, ōris, m.id.,

I an evildoer, malefactor (Plautin. and post-class.): malefactorem amitti satiu'st quam relinqui beneficum, i. e. it is better to let a malefactor go unpunished than to be ungrateful towards a benefactor, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 2, 11: ad vindictam malefactorum, Vulg. 1 Pet. 2, 14.

In the wild

malefactorem Plautus, Bacchides 3.2

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.

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