sector

An Elementary Latin Dictionary

sector (1) ōris, m

2 SAC-, one who cuts, a cutter : sectores collorum et bonorum, cutthroats and cutpurses : omnium sectorum audacissimus (in a double sense).— A purchaser of confiscated goods at auction, speculator in forfeited estates : in bello hostis, in pace sector: mulierem emere a sectoribus.

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