artifex

artifex icis, m and f

ars + FAC-, a master of an art, professional man, artist, artificer (used of a sculptor, musician, actor, etc.): artifices improbi, i. e. quacks , L.: dicendi, an orator : morbi, healer , Tb.— A maker, builder, author, contriver : mundi: operum, L.: figurae, O.: caedis, O.— A trickster, cunning deceiver, cheat : Artificis scelus, i. e. the wicked device , V.; cf. artificis scelus, i. e. artifex scelestus, V.: O artificem probum!T.— Apposit., a master, skilled, clever, ingenious, dexterous : artifices manūs, O.: talis negoti, S.: ad corrumpendum ingenium.— Artistic : boves, Pr.