compilator

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

compīlātor, ōris, m. [compilo],

a plunderer : veterum, an epithet of Virgil (on account of his imitation of Homer, Ennius, etc.), acc. to Hier. praef. Hebr. Quaest. in Genes., and Isid. Orig. 10, 44.

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