Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Q, Q, Quadruplātor

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Quadruplātor

A professional accuser in those cases under the Roman law which involved a pecuniary penalty (Verr. ii. 8.22). The name probably owes its origin to the fact that the quadruplator professed to expose offences in which the fine was fixed at four times the damage, as, for example, a violation of the usury laws (Livy, vii. 28), and in which, therefore, his own reward would be large. See Geib, Criminalprocess, 106; and the article Delator.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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