delatorum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →defero, deferre, detuli, delatus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
carry/bring/sink/fall down/off; convey/deliver/transfer; reduce/slope (down to);; flow/carry/run down (to sea); pay/remit; deposit/record/register; bear/produce;; bring/lodge information (about), report; indict, accuse, denounce; defer (to);; offer; bestow upon, confer/award/grant, entrust; submit, refer for decision;; honor; export (medieval usage);
gen. pl. perf. pass. part.gen. pl. perf. pass. part. - Entry →delator, delatoris:
Masculine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
informer, who gives information/reports; accuser/denouncer/who accuses of crime;
gen. pl.
Examples
Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...orbitate: ceterum multitudo periclitantium gliscebat, cum omnis domus delatorum interpretationibus subverteretur, utque antehac flagitiis ita tunc legibus laborabatur..."Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...virtutes certissimum exitium. nec minus praemia delatorum invisa quam scelera, cum alii sacerdotia et consulatus ut spolia adepti..."Liber IV
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...periculis ipsis magna erant, dicerem de conspiratione delatorum quam in quaestu habebant, dicerem causas quibus factiosissimum quemque..."Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...pulchrum spectaculum pro illo nobis exsecrabili reddidisti! Vidimus delatorum iudicium, quasi grassatorum quasi latronum. Non solitudinem illi..."