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sculptor

sculptor · m

one who cuts

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Where it lives

Apotheosis 1 · 1.35/10k

What it meant

sculptor — Lewis & Short

sculptor, ōris, m.id.,

I one who cuts, carves, or engraves in stone, wood, etc. (cf.: fictor, plastes), a stone-cutter, graver, sculptor, Plin. 29, 6, 38, § 132; 36, 5, 4, § 11 (Jahn reads throughout scalptor); Plin. Ep. 1, 10, 4: opere sculptoris, Vulg. Exod. 23, 11; Cassiod. Var. 7, 5 (sometimes confounded with scalptor).

In the wild

sculptor Prudentius, Apotheosis 3.724

Where it came from

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