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cantor
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Lewis Short
cantor (noun M) : cano
* A singer, poet.
* In gen.: omnibus hoc vitium est cantoribus,Hor. S. 1, 3, 1; so id. ib. 1, 3, 129; 1, 2, 3 (mutato nomine cantorem pro musico dicit, Acron.): Thamyras,Prop. 2 (3), 22, 19. cantor Apollo,Hor. A. P. 407 (cf. Apollo): (Caligula) Threx et auriga idem cantor atque saltator,Suet. Calig. 54.—In a contemptuous sense: cantor formularum,Cic. de Or. 1, 55, 236; cf. Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 132.— And with gen. of the person (conformably to cano, II. B.), an extoller, eulogist: cantores Euphorionis,Cic. Tusc. 3, 19, 45.
* Esp., in the lang. of the drama, = χορευτής, an actor, player (cf. G. Herm. Opusc. I. p. 298), Cic. Sest. 55, 118: donec cantor vos plaudite! dicat,Hor. A. P. 155; Suet. Calig. 54.
* A singer, poet.
* In gen.: omnibus hoc vitium est cantoribus,Hor. S. 1, 3, 1; so id. ib. 1, 3, 129; 1, 2, 3 (mutato nomine cantorem pro musico dicit, Acron.): Thamyras,Prop. 2 (3), 22, 19. cantor Apollo,Hor. A. P. 407 (cf. Apollo): (Caligula) Threx et auriga idem cantor atque saltator,Suet. Calig. 54.—In a contemptuous sense: cantor formularum,Cic. de Or. 1, 55, 236; cf. Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 132.— And with gen. of the person (conformably to cano, II. B.), an extoller, eulogist: cantores Euphorionis,Cic. Tusc. 3, 19, 45.
* Esp., in the lang. of the drama, = χορευτής, an actor, player (cf. G. Herm. Opusc. I. p. 298), Cic. Sest. 55, 118: donec cantor vos plaudite! dicat,Hor. A. P. 155; Suet. Calig. 54.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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