Stator
a Roman surname of Jupiter. describing him as staying the Romans in their flight from an enemy, and generally as preserving the existing order of things. (Liv. 1.12, 10.37; Cic. Cat. 1.13; Flor. 1.1; Senec. De Benef. 4.7; Plin. Nat. 2.53; August. De Civ. Dei, 3.13.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.