The corpus record — Latin

quadruplator

quadruplator · m

One who multiplies by four

Generated live from the audited Latin corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Antoninus Pius 1 · 4.46/10k
Divinatio in Q. Caecilium 2 · 3.44/10k
Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 1 · 1.82/10k
Divus Aurelianus 1 · 1.28/10k
Persa 1 · 1.27/10k
Ab urbe condita, books 1-5 - 3 1 · 0.5/10k
Apologia 1 · 0.47/10k
In C. Verrem 3 · 0.3/10k
Ab urbe condita 1 · 0.02/10k

What it meant

1. quā^drŭplātor — Lewis & Short

quā^drŭplātor (quadrĭplātor, quădrŭpŭlā-tor, ōris, m.quadruplo.

Fest. p. 259 Müll. v. h. v.: Plaut. Pers. 1, 2, 18),

I One who multiplies by four, a quadrupler, App. Mag. p. 330, 20. —

B Transf., a multiplier, magnifier, exaggerator: beneficiorum suorum, Sen. Ben. 7, 25, 1. —

II One who farmed the tolls, of which he received a fourth part, Sid. Ep. 5, 7.

2. quā^drū^plātor — Lewis & Short

quā^drū^plātor (quā^drī^-), ōris, m.quadruplor,

I a public informer, who received a fourth part of the thing informed against (acc. to others, against one who committed an offence punishable with a fourfold penalty; cf. sector); also, in gen., a trickster, chicaner, Plaut. Pers. 1, 2, 18: deterrimus, Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 7, § 21; 2, 2, 8, § 22; Liv. 3, 72; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 259, 3 Müll.; Cic. Div. in Caecil. 7, 24; 21, 68.

In the wild

quadruplatores Cicero, Divinatio in Q. Caecilium 68
quadruplatores Historia Augusta, Antoninus Pius 7
quadruplatores Historia Augusta, Divus Aurelianus 39
quadruplatoris Livy, Ab urbe condita 1.3.72.5
quadruplatorum Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.135
quadruplatoribus Cicero, Divinatio in Q. Caecilium 24

6 of 12 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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

Latin text and lemmatization derived from the Perseus Digital Library (canonical-latinLit), CC BY-SA 4.0. Lewis & Short (public domain) via Perseus. This derived data is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 license.