suffrāgātor | subf- (noun M) : (), , id.
* One who votes for another, a supporter, partisan, suffragator (class.): suffragatorum comparatio,Cic. Mur. 21, 44: historicis notior, suffragatoribus obscurior,id. ib. 7, 16: ex fucosis firmi suffragatores evadunt,Q. Cic. Pet. Cons. 9, 35: meus in petendis honoribus,Plin. Ep. 4, 17, 6; id. Pan. 92, 3: competitoris sui suffragatorem agere,Val. Max. 4, 5, 3: candidati laborare desiimus: suffragatores incipimus,Sen. Brev. Vit. 17, 5.—With gen.-obj.: quaesturae,for the office of quaestor,Sen. Ben. 7, 28, 2.
* Transf., in gen., a favorer, supporter: te et suffragatores tuos ulciscar,Plaut. Cas. 2, 4, 20: propter studia suffragatorum,Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 18: cum suffragatore suo,Suet. Vesp. 23; Plin. Ep. 3, 20, 5; App. Dogm. Plat. 2, p. 16, 56.