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quaesitor
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Lewis Short
quaesītor (noun M) : id.
* A seeker, searcher (post-class.).
* In gen., as for gold, connected with scrutator, Pacat. Pan. Th. 28.
* In partic., an investigator.
* In judicial (esp. in criminal) matters, an examiner, inquisitor: quid mihi opus est sapiente judice? quid aequo quaesitore?Cic. Font. 6, 11; id. Sull. 28, 78; Cic. Verr. 1, 10, 29: quaesitorem edere,id. Planc. 17, 43: quaesitor Minos,Verg. A. 6, 432: tres,Sall. J. 40, 4.— Of Cicero, as the investigator of the Catilinarian conspiracy,Cic. Cat. 4, 5, 10: judex desiit esse, quaesitor est,Sen. Brev. Vit. 17, 3.— Esp. of the praetor who presided in criminal trials,Cic. Verr. 1, 10.
* In a scientific point of view, an inquirer, examiner, considerer, as a transl. of the Gr. σκεπτικός, a sceptic (post-class.), Gell. 11, 5, 2: quaesitor ille solus animaeque corporisque, Prud. Hymn. ante Somn. 89.
* A seeker, searcher (post-class.).
* In gen., as for gold, connected with scrutator, Pacat. Pan. Th. 28.
* In partic., an investigator.
* In judicial (esp. in criminal) matters, an examiner, inquisitor: quid mihi opus est sapiente judice? quid aequo quaesitore?Cic. Font. 6, 11; id. Sull. 28, 78; Cic. Verr. 1, 10, 29: quaesitorem edere,id. Planc. 17, 43: quaesitor Minos,Verg. A. 6, 432: tres,Sall. J. 40, 4.— Of Cicero, as the investigator of the Catilinarian conspiracy,Cic. Cat. 4, 5, 10: judex desiit esse, quaesitor est,Sen. Brev. Vit. 17, 3.— Esp. of the praetor who presided in criminal trials,Cic. Verr. 1, 10.
* In a scientific point of view, an inquirer, examiner, considerer, as a transl. of the Gr. σκεπτικός, a sceptic (post-class.), Gell. 11, 5, 2: quaesitor ille solus animaeque corporisque, Prud. Hymn. ante Somn. 89.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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