I.a haranguer of the people; in a bad sense, a demagogue, a political agitator, Cic. Cat. 4, 5, 9 (opp. animus vere popularis); Front. Ep. ad Ver. 1, p. 171; cf.: “contionator, allocutor multitudinis,” Isid. Orig. 10, 38.
contĭōnātor , ōris, m. contionor,