iaculator

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

jăcŭlātor, ōris, m. [iaculor], a thrower, caster, hurler.

I In gen.: Enceladus jaculator audax (truncorum), Hor. C. 3, 4, 55: fulminis, Stat. Th. 12, 562; Arn. 4, 22: missis a rege Boccho jaculatoribus, Sen. Brev. Vit. 13, 6.—

II In partic.

A A thrower of the dart or javelin (a sort of light-armed soldier, who carried only a dart or javelin): jaculatorum manus, Liv. 36, 18; 21, 21 al. —

B A caster of the net, a fisherman , Plaut. ap. Isid. Orig. 19, 5, 2.—

III Trop., an accuser : felix orator quoque maximus et jaculator, Juv. 7, 193.

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