The corpus record — Latin

perductor

perductor · m

a leader

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Where it lives

Mostellaria 2 · 2.08/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k
In C. Verrem 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

perductor — Lewis & Short

perductor, ōris, m.id.,

I a leader, conductor; in partic., a pimp, pander (cf. perduco, I. B. 1.): lenonum, aleatorum, perductorum nulla mentio fiat, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 12, § 34 (lenones sunt scortorum: perductores etiam invitarum personarum, et in quibus stupra exercita legibus vindicantur, Ascon. ad h. l.); Lact. 6, 17, 19.—*

II A guide, conductor, in a double sense with the preced. signif.: Si. Eho istum, puer, circumduce hasce aedes et conclavia. Th. Apage istum a me perductorem: nihil moror ductarier, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 159 sq.

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