I.a freer, deliverer, liberator: “patriae liberatores,” Cic. Phil. 1, 2, 6: “urbis,” Liv. 1, 60: “nostri liberatores,” Cic. Att. 14, 12, 2: “liberator suus,” Liv. 6, 14: scortorum, * Plaut. Pers. 3, 3, 14.— “In apposition: liberator populus,” Liv. 35, 18 fin.—So as an epithet of Jupiter (like Ζευς ἐλευθέριος): “libare se liquorem illum Jovi liberatori,” Tac. A. 15, 64; 16, 35.—So in eccl. Lat. freq. of God: “refugium meum ac liberator meus,” Vulg. Psa. 17, 3.—
lībĕrātor , ōris, m. id.,