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obtrectator

obtrectator · m

a detractor

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Where it lives

Epaminondas 1 · 5.99/10k
Vitellius 1 · 4.15/10k
Commentariolum Petitionis 1 · 2.3/10k
Pro Fonteio 1 · 2.2/10k
Divus Julius 2 · 2.05/10k
Pro L. Flacco 2 · 1.83/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 3 · 1.63/10k
Pro L. Cornelio Balbo 1 · 1.47/10k
De haruspicum responso in P. Clodium in Senatu Habita 1 · 1.33/10k
C. Caligula 1 · 1.31/10k
Nero 1 · 1.28/10k
Dialogus de Oratoribus 1 · 1.08/10k

Densest 12 of 26 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

obtrectātor — Lewis & Short

obtrectātor, ōris, m.id.,

I a detractor, traducer, disparager (class.): obtrectator est, qui facit quid contra recte tractantem, Paul. ex Fest. p. 199 Müll.: beneficii, Cic. Fl. 1, 2: multi communes obtrectatores atque omnium invidi, multa finxerunt, id. Planc. 23, 57: obtrectatores et invidi Scipionis, id. Rep. 1, 19, 31; id. Fam 1, 4, 2: non relinquere locum obtrectatorum sermoni, id. Fl. 28, 68: contra inimicos atque obtrectatores, Quint. 11, 1, 23: laudum mearum, Cic. Brut. 1, 2.—

(b) With dat.: huic sententiae obtrectatores amici regis erant, Just. 31, 6, 1.

In the wild

obtrectatores Tacitus, Annales 16.p29
obtrectator Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 25.5.8
obtrectatores Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 5.9.1
obtrectatores Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 17.11.4
obtrectatorum Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 26-27 - 26 p40
obtrectatoribus Cicero, Epistulae ad Familiares 1.4.2

6 of 55 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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