The corpus record — Latin

viator

viator · m

a wayfarer

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Where it lives

Mosella 1 · 3.08/10k
Satyrarum libri 4 · 2.82/10k
Epistulae, Books VIII-IX 3 · 2.37/10k
In P. Vatinium testem interrogatio 1 · 2.23/10k
Pro Fonteio 1 · 2.2/10k
De Fato 1 · 2.02/10k
Pro T. Annio Milone 2 · 1.9/10k
De Consolatione ad Polybium 1 · 1.76/10k
Metamorphoses 9 · 1.69/10k
Epigrammata 8 · 1.42/10k
de consulatu Stilichonis 1 · 1.32/10k
Amores 2 · 1.28/10k

Densest 12 of 46 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

vĭātor — Lewis & Short

vĭātor, ōris, m.vio.

I In gen., a wayfarer, traveller, Cic. Fat. 15, 34; id. Mil. 21, 55; Caes. B. G. 4, 5; Verg. G. 4, 97; id. Fragm. ap. Don. Vit. Verg.; Hor. C. 3, 4, 30; id. S. 1, 5, 17; Ov. Tr. 2, 271; id. P. 4, 10, 34; Phaedr. 2, 1, 5; Juv. 10, 22; Mart. 2, 6, 14; 11, 13, 1.—

II In partic., a summoner, apparitor, an officer whose duty was to summon persons before the magistrate, Varr. ap. Gell. 13, 12, 6; Cic. Sen. 16, 56; id. Vatin. 9, 22; Liv. 2, 56, 13; 3, 56, 5; Just. Inst. 4, 6; Dig. 5, 1, 82; Inscr. Grut. 627, 1 sqq.

In the wild

viatores Apuleius, Metamorphoses 10.1
viatori Catullus, Carmina elegies.68a.21
viatorem Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 4.10.8
viator Propertius, Elegiae 2.11.5
viatoris Seneca, De Consolatione ad Polybium 11.14.4
viator Vergil, Aeneid 5.275

6 of 105 attestations shown.

Where it came from

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