The corpus record — Latin

mandator

mandator · m

one who gives a charge

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Where it lives

Topica 1 · 1.46/10k
Adversus Marcionem 4 · 0.48/10k
De Bello Civili 1 · 0.31/10k
Epistulae. Selections. 1 · 0.22/10k
Res Gestae 2 · 0.16/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1 · 0.14/10k
Letters to Atticus 1 · 0.08/10k

What it meant

mandātor — Lewis & Short

mandātor, ōris, m.id.,

I one who gives a charge or commission, a mandator.

I Lit. (post-class.): quod extra mandatum egit, non praejudicet mandatori, Gai. Inst. 1, 17 fin.; Dig. 3, 2, 20; 17, 1, 22; Tert. adv. Marc. 3, 2: caedis, Paul. Sent. 3, 5, 12; 5, 23, 11.—

II Transf.

A One who instigates or suborns accusers or informers (postAug.): et delatores mandatoresque erant ex licentia veteri, Suet. Tit. 8: delator compellitur edere mandatorem, Dig. 49, 14, 2.—

B One by whose authority money is lent, Dig. 17, 1, 59 sq.

In the wild

mandatorum Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 17.14.1
mandatoris Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 3.4
mandator Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem 3.2
mandatorum Augustine, Epistulae. Selections. 33.11
mandatorum Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 21.7.4
mandatorum Julius Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.10.3

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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