noun
pŏpŭlātor
Meaning
- a devastator
pŏpŭlātor, ōris, m. populor,
I. a devastator, destroyer, ravager, spoiler, plunderer (perh. not ante-Aug.).
I. Lit.:
agrorum, Liv. 3, 68 fin.: Trojae (Atrides), Ov. M. 13, 655.—Poet., transf.: Tuscae glandis aper, Mart. 7, 27, 1: Calabri arvi Sirius, Val. Fl. 1, 683.—II. Trop., a destroyer, consumer:
luxus populator opum, Claud. in Ruf. 1, 35: civitatis, Quint. Decl. 12, 24 fin.; Luc. 4, 92.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
populātor ōris, m
populor, a devastator, spoiler, plunderer : agrorum, L.: Troiae, O.