Stator
a Roman surname of Jupiter. describing him as staying the Romans in their flight from an enemy, and generally as preserving the existing order of things. (
Liv. 1.12,
10.37; Cic.
Cat. 1.13;
Flor. 1.1; Senec.
De Benef. 4.7;
Plin. Nat. 2.53; August.
De Civ. Dei, 3.13.)
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