spectatrix

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

spectātrix, īcis, f. [spectator].

I She that looks at or observes a thing, Plaut. Merc. 3, 4, 12; 5, 2, 1; Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 18 med. ; Ov. Am. 2, 12, 26: scelerum, Luc. 3, 129.—

II She that judges or tries : incorrupta praeteritorum (posteritas), Amm. 30, 8, 1: humanorum, id. 22, 3, 12: spectatrix dijudicatrixque omnium rerum, Ap. Dogm. Plat. 2, p. 15, 23.

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