I. He who provides, prepares, or causes a thing; an author, founder, promoter, etc. (in good prose, but not in Cic.; cf. “however: conciliatrix and conciliatricula): suillae carnis,” who prepares it savorily, makes it palatable, Varr. R. R. 2, 4, 8: “nuptiarum,” Nep. Att. 12, 2: “proditionis,” Liv. 27, 15, 17: “adfinitatis atque amicitiae,” Suet. Aug. 48; cf. Tac. A. 1, 58: piscis conciliator capturae (piscium), by which other fishes are caught, a decoy, Plin. 9, 59, 85, § 181 sq.—
II. A procurer (in love-matters), Vop. Carin. 16, 5.
