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Lewis Short
captātor (noun M) : id.
* One who eagerly reaches after, endeavors to obtain, or strives for something (rare; not in Cic.).
* Lit. only in Prud. στεφ. 5, 17.
* Trop.: aurae popularis,that courts the popular breeze,Liv. 3, 33, 7.—Esp., one who hunts after legacies, a legacy-hunter, Hor. S. 2, 5, 57; Petr. 141; Juv. 5, 98; 10, 202.
* One who eagerly reaches after, endeavors to obtain, or strives for something (rare; not in Cic.).
* Lit. only in Prud. στεφ. 5, 17.
* Trop.: aurae popularis,that courts the popular breeze,Liv. 3, 33, 7.—Esp., one who hunts after legacies, a legacy-hunter, Hor. S. 2, 5, 57; Petr. 141; Juv. 5, 98; 10, 202.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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