Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Structor

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. 

STRUC'TOR (τραπεζοποιός). A slave whose duty it was to arrange the several dishes of each course upon the trays (fercula, Serv. ad Virg. Aen. i. 704.), and place them in proper order in the dinner-basket (repositorium, Pet. Sat. 35. 2.); sometimes also to take upon himself the office of carver (Mart. x. 48. Juv. v. 120.), and to set out in a tasty manner, or construct in artificial devices, the fruits and delicacies of the dessert. Lamprid. Elag. 27.