The corpus record — Latin

metator

metator · m

one who metes out

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Where it lives

Philippicae 2 · 0.38/10k
Pharsalia 1 · 0.2/10k
Adversus Marcionem 1 · 0.12/10k

What it meant

mētātor — Lewis & Short

mētātor, ōris, m.id.,

I one who metes out or marks off a place, a divider and fixer of boundaries (class.).

I Lit.: castrorum antea metator, nunc, ut sperat, urbis, Cic. Phil. 11, 5, 12; cf. id. ib. 14, 4, 10: templi, Lact. 4, 11.—

II Trop., a measurer: tempus arbiter et metator initii et finis, Tert. adv. Marc. 1, 8.

Where it came from

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