institor

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

instĭtor, ōris, m. [insisto],

I a person who sells goods for another , a factor , broker , agent; a huckster , hawker , peddler (cf.: circulator, negotiator): amata nautis multum et institoribus, Hor. Epod. 17, 20: mercis, Liv. 22, 25: hibernae tegetis, Juv. 7, 221.—

II Trop.: eloquentiae, who hawks about his eloquence , makes an exhibition of it , Quint. 11, 1, 50; id. 8, 3, 12.

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