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fā^brĭcātor , ōris, m. id.,
I.an artificer, framer, forger, contriver, fabricator (rare but class.).
I. Lit.: “ille fabricator tanti operis (mundi),” Cic. Univ. 2; so, mundi, Quint, 2, 16, 12; Ov. M. 1, 57: “minutorum opusculorum,” Cic. Ac. 2, 38, 120: “ipse doli (i. e. equi lignei) fabricator Epeos,” Verg. A. 2, 264: deorum, i. e. of statues of the gods, Firm. Math. 3, 6, 9.—
II. Trop.: “dolor ac morbus leti fabricator uterque est,” causer, producer, Lucr. 3, 472.
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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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.57
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 2.264
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 3.472
    • Cicero, Timaeus, 2
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