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                    "description": "călumnĭātor | kălumnĭātor (noun M) : (; v. the foreg.), ,  calumnior; mostly t. t.\n* A contriver of tricks or artifices, a pettifogger, a perverter of law, a chicaner (sometimes, perhaps, branded on the forehead with the letter K = calumniator; cf. Voss, Arist. 1, 17; Ernest. Clav. Cic. Ind. Leg. s. v. Remmia): si calvitur et moretur et frustratur. Inde et calumniatores appellati sunt, quia per fraudem et frustrationem alios vexarent litibus,Dig. 50, 16, 223: scriptum sequi calumniatoris esse: boni judicis, voluntatem scriptoris auctoritatemque defendere,Cic. Caecil. 23, 65: calumniatores apponere,Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 10, § 27: calumniatorem quaerere,id. ib. 2, 2, 8, § 22; 2, 2, 10, § 26: egens,id. Clu. 59, 163; id. Quint. 28, 87; Phaedr. 1, 17, 2; Mart. 11, 66, 1; Dig. 3, 2, 4, § 4; Suet. Rhet. 4.\n* Trop.: calumniator sui,one who is too anxious in regard to his work, over-scrupulous,Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 92; cf. calumnia, III. B., and calumnior, II. B."
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