praedator

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

praedātor, ōris, m. [praedor], a plunderer, pillager.

I Lit. (class.): quos ego in eodem genere praedatorum direptorumque pono, Cic. Cat. 2, 9, 20: exercitus, praedator ex sociis, Sall. J. 44, 1.—

II Transf.

A A hunter (poet.): praedator aprorum, Ov. M. 12, 306; Stat. Th. 4, 316.—Transf.: corporis, i. e. a ravisher , Petr. 85, 3.—*

B A rapacious or avaricious man , Tib. 2, 3, 43.

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