The corpus record — Latin

vastator

vastator · m

a desolater

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Where it lives

Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.52/10k
In Eutropium 1 · 1.39/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Silvae 2 · 0.8/10k
De Anima 1 · 0.42/10k
Metamorphoses 2 · 0.26/10k
De Beneficiis 1 · 0.22/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k

What it meant

vastātor — Lewis & Short

vastātor, ōris, m.id.,

I a desolater, ravager, devastater (mostly poet.): Arcadiae aper, Ov. M. 9, 192: ferus (i. e. lupus), id. ib. 11, 395: ferarum Amycus, destroyer, Verg. A. 9, 772: Trojae, Stat. Achill. 2, 318: gentium (Alexander), Sen. Ben. 1, 13, 3.

In the wild

vastator Statius, Thebais 7.565
vastator Claudian, In Eutropium 2.20.290
vastator Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.192
vastatorem Vergil, Aeneid 9.772
vastator Statius, Achilleis 2.32
vastator Claudian, Panegyricus de quarto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1.29

6 of 11 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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