The corpus record — Latin

ultor

ultor · m

a punisher

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Where it lives

Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 2 · 16.67/10k
Ausonii de XII Caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis 1 · 11.76/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 6 · 7.91/10k
De Patientia 3 · 6.63/10k
De Fide Catholica 1 · 5.19/10k
Divinatio in Q. Caecilium 3 · 5.16/10k
Ibis 2 · 5.09/10k
Pro T. Annio Milone 5 · 4.76/10k
Epithalamium de nuptiis Honorii Augusti 1 · 4.57/10k
Cathemerina 3 · 4.08/10k
Opilius Macrinus 1 · 4.02/10k
Helvius Pertinax 1 · 3.85/10k

Densest 12 of 81 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ultor — Lewis & Short

ultor, ōris, m.ulciscor,

I a punisher, avenger, revenger.

I In gen. (class.): conjurationis investigator atque ultor, Cic. Sull. 30, 85: Publius nostrarum injuriarum ultor, id. Brut. 77, 268; id. Pis. 10, 23: exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor, Verg. A. 4, 625.—Attributively, Ov. Ib. 340: deus ultor = Anteros, id. M. 14, 750: ultores dii, Tac. H. 4, 57: ultore ferro, Just. 4, 18, 5: ultores ignes, Prop. 4, 1, 115; Sil. 2, 495.—

II Ultor, a surname of Mars, the Avenger, Ov. F. 5, 577; Tac. A. 3, 18; Suet. Aug. 21; 29; id. Calig. 24 fin.; Inscr. Grut. 121, 9; 232 med.; 317, 8.

In the wild

ultor Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia 6.8.4
ultores Livy, Ab Urbe Condita, books 1-2 - 2 p28
ultores Ovid, Tristia 1.3.76
ultorem Seneca, De Ira 1.1.1
ultor Ausonius, Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt 1.1
Ultor Ovid, Fasti 5.577

6 of 195 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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