metator

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

mētātor, ōris, m. [metor], one who metes out or marks off a place, a divider and fixer of boundaries (class.).

I Lit.: castrorum antea metator, nunc, ut sperat, urbis, Cic. Phil. 11, 5, 12; cf. id. ib. 14, 4, 10: templi, Lact. 4, 11.—

II Trop., a measurer : tempus arbiter et metator initii et finis, Tert. adv. Marc. 1, 8.

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