adulator

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

ădūlātor, ōris, m. [adulor],

a low , cringing flatterer , a sycophant (homo fallax et levis, ad voluptatem facit ac dicit omnia, nihil ad veritatem, Cic. Lael. 25, 91; cf. id. ib. 25, 93): nolo esse laudator, ne videar adulator, Auct. Her. 4, 21; so Quint. 12, 10, 13; Suet. Vit. 1: versabilium adulatorum, Amm. 14, 11, 2.

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