“founder” in Latin

conditor (e.g., of a town, urbis; of an empire, imperii; of a religion, sacri, ☞ Liv., 39, 17: Feminine, conditrix, Apul., etc.): ☞ fundator is poetical only: auctor; parens (the author of anything in general, the latter used as our “father,” but only in the higher style, as in Cic.: Romulus, hujus urbis parens, or philosophiae parens Socrates jure dici potest: the founder of our welfare, salutis nostrae auctor or parens). The founder of our liberty, a quibus initium libertatis profectum est: everybody is the founder of his own fortune, faber est quisque fortunae suae (Prov., Sall. ad Caes. de rep. ord., 1); sui cuique mores fingunt fortunam (Nep., Att., 11, 6); ut quisque fortuna utitur, ita praecellet (Plaut., Pseud., 2, 3, 13). ☞ Sometimes “founder” may be rendered by circumlocution; e.g., Solon was the founder of the Areopagus, a Solone Areopagus constitutus est; and for the founder of a school, etc., we may use *qui aliquid in morte ejus testamento instituit or institui jussit (if it was by will). Anybody was the founder of anything, *aliquid legato alicujus institutum est.

Founder of metals, fusor (Cod. Just., 10, 64, 1, and Inscr.): faber aerarius: statuarius (of statues): caelator: toreutes (τορευτής, in basso rilievo; Vid: O.Müller’s Archaeol., § 311, 1): *tormentorum fusor (of guns): *campanarum fusor (of bells).

naufragium facere (general term, to suffer shipwreck; of ships as well as of the crew. ☞ Never naufragium pati): elidi et naufragio interire (Caes., B.C., 3, 27): (aqua or undis) submergi (to be sunk; also, figuratively, to have nearly foundered, summersum paene esse, Liv., 24, 8; of the state, under the image of a vessel). It is a bad pilot, whose ship founders when he is first sailing out of port, pessimus gubernator, qui navem, dum portum egreditur, impegit (Quint., 4, 1, 66). Vid: “to suffer SHIPWRECK.