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.