iurator

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

jūrātor, ōris, m. [juro], a swearer.

I Lit. (post-class.): falsus, Macr. S. 5, 19, § 21.—

II In partic., an assistant of the censor, one who received the sworn returns of tax-payers : census quom sum, juratori recte rationem dedi, Plaut. Trin. 4, 2, 30 (38); cf. id. Poen. prol. 58; Liv. 39, 44, 2; Symm. Or. pro Synes. 1.—

III Trop., of the audience, as judges of a play: vos juratores estis, quaeso, operam date, Plaut. Poen. prol. 58.

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