Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Fartor

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

FARTOR (σιτευτής). A slave whose especial business it was to fatten poultry for the table; or one who kept and sold fatted poultry. (Columell. viii. 7. 1. Inscript. ap. Grut. 580. 15.) In the following passages, Plaut. Truc. i. 2. 11. Ter. Eun. ii. 2. 26. Hor. Sat. ii. 3. 229., the word is commonly supposed to mean a maker of sausages, or of pastry filled inside with sweetmeats; but there is no reason for the distinction, and the presence of a poulterer would be equally accordant with the context in all of them. Becker, Gallus, p. 138. Transl.