Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Arator

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

ARA'TOR (ἀροτήρ). One who ploughs; a ploughman (Plin. H. N. xviii. 49. § 2.). Also a ploughing ox, for the word is equally applied to animals (Ovid. Fast. i. 698.). Both are shown by the illustration (Arator/1.1), from a Roman bas-relief.

2. A tenant farmer upon a large scale, who cultivated extensive tracts of the public lands for a tenth part of the produce; generally persons of the equestrian order, and spoken of by Cicero as a useful and excellent class of men. Cic. Agr. ii. 31. 2. Verr. iii. 55.

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