aliptes

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

ăliptēs or ălipta, ae, m., = ἀλείπτης,

the manager in the school for wrestlers , who took care that the wrestlers anointed their bodies with unguents, in order to give them the necessary suppleness, and exercised them in the ring, master of wrestling , or of the ring : ut aliptae, virium et coloris rationem habere, * Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 15: Geometres, pictor, aliptes, Juv. 3, 76; aliptā egere, Cels. 1, 1 Daremb.

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