The corpus record — Latin

sator

sator · m

a sower

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Where it lives

Versus Paschales Pro Augusto Dicti 1 · 51.55/10k
Cathemerina 4 · 5.43/10k
Epistularum 2 · 2.2/10k
Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Oedipus 1 · 1.69/10k
Thebais 10 · 1.6/10k
Phaedra 1 · 1.41/10k
Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k
Hercules 1 · 1.31/10k
De Clementia 1 · 1.2/10k
Captivi 1 · 1.16/10k
Punica 7 · 0.92/10k

Densest 12 of 30 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

sător — Lewis & Short

sător, ōris, m.id..

I Lit., a sower, planter, Varr. R. R. 1, 45, 3; Lucr. 2, 1168; Cic. N. D. 2, 34; Col. 3, 15, 3; Plin. 15, 1, 1, § 3; Vulg. Jer. 50, 16.—

B Poet., transf., a begetter, father, creator: caelestum sator, i. e. Jupiter, Cic. poët. Tusc. 2, 9, 21; also termed hominum sator atque deorum, Verg. A. 1, 254; 11, 725: hominum (with deorum genitor), Phaedr. 3, 17, 10: rerum, Sil. 4, 432: aevi, id. 9, 306: verus Alcidae sator, Sen. Herc. Fur. 357: annorum nitidique mundi, i. e. Janus, Mart. 10, 28, 1: qui et sator omnium deorum fuit, Lact. 1, 23, 5.—

II Trop., a sower, promoter, author (very rare; not in Cic.): sator sartorque scelerum, Plaut. Capt. 3, 5, 3: litis, Liv. 21, 6, 2: turbarum. Sil. 8, 260.

In the wild

satorum Cicero, De Inventione 2.56
sator Statius, Thebais 5.22
satorum Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae 27.10.7
satorum Columella, Res Rustica, Books I-IX 2.11.8
sator Statius, Thebais 8.93
Sator Propertius, Elegiae 4.2.56

6 of 57 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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