I.one who traces out, a tracker of prey, Isid. Orig. 10 fin.: “apum,” one who hunts swarms of bees, Col. 9, 8, 12: aquarum, a hunter of springs (= aquilex), id. 2, 2, 20.—
II. Transf., an investigator, searcher: “celatūm (for celatorum),” Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 14: rerum naturalium, Ser. Samm. ap. Macr. S. 2, 12, 7; Vitr. 1, 6, 6.