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condĭtor , ōris, m. id.,
I.a maker, builder, framer, establisher, founder, author, compiler, etc.
I. Prop. (class.; most freq. in the poets and prose writers after the Aug. per.).
(α). With gen.: “Romanae arcis,” Verg. A. 8, 313: “oppidum magnum, cujus conditor,” Sall. J. 89, 4: “simulacra infantium conditorum urbis,” i. e. Romulus and Remus, Liv. 10, 23, 12; cf.: “casa illa conditoris nostri,” id. 5, 53, 8; cf. “of the founders of states,” Ov. M. 4, 566; 14, 849; *Hor. A. P. 394; Quint. 2, 16, 9; 3, 2, 4 al.; Suet. Aug. 7; 98 Bremi al.: “tanti regni Cyrus,” Just. 2, 10: historiae, Ov. lb. 522; Poët. ap. Quint. 8, 3, 29: “Romani anni,” i. e. author of the Fasti, Ov. F. 6, 21: “scientiae medicorum,” Sen. Ep. 95, 20: “pessimorum carminum,” Curt. 8, 5, 8: “legum atque jurium,” Plaut. Ep. 3, 4, 86; cf.: “legum lator conditorque Romani juris,” Liv. 3, 58, 2: “ejus sacri,” id. 39, 17, 7: “Romanae libertatis,” id. 8, 34, 3; 1, 42, 4: “mundi,” Sen. Ep. 119, 15; id. Phoen. 655.—Rarely,
(β). Absol.: T. Sicinium ... conditorem Veios sequantur, i. e. who advises a removal to Veii, κτιστήν, Liv. 5, 24, 11: “conditorum, parentum, deorum numero nobis eritis,” id. 7, 30, 19: “sacrificium quod Aeneae conditori faciunt,” id. 40, 4, 9: “humilis,” writer, author, Tib. 4, 1, 4.—In a sarcastic pun: “ipse conditor totius negotii Guttam aspergit huic Balbo (with allusion to the meaning of condo, to lay up fruits, cf. the foll.),” Cic. Clu. 26, 71.—
II. Condĭ-tor , nom. propr., a rural deity who presided over the laying up of fruits, acc. to Serv. ad Verg. G. 1, 21.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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    • Cicero, For Aulus Cluentius, 26.71
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 4.566
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 8.313
    • Suetonius, Divus Augustus, 7
    • Horace, Ars Poetica, 394
    • Plautus, Epidicus, 3.4
    • Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum, 89
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    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 7, 30
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 39, 17
    • Seneca, Phoenissae, 655
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    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 8, 3.29
    • Seneca, Epistulae, 119.15
    • Seneca, Epistulae, 95.20
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 8.5.8
    • Ovid, Fasti, 6
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