Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Venator

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. 

VENA'TOR (θηρατὴς, κυνηγέτης). A huntsman who follows the chase or the sport of killing wild animals, such as tigers, bulls, boars, deer, &c., with dogs and spears, on foot or on horseback (Cic. Tusc. ii. 17. Hor. Od. i. 1. 26.), as exhibited by the illustration (Venator/1.1) on the following page, from a painting at Pompeii, representing a huntsman with his dog, and a boar at bay, wounded in the back by one spear, and pierced through the forehead by another, which is held by the huntsman at close quarters.

2. (θηριομάχης). A gladiator who fought in the amphitheatre with wild beasts instead of men (Apul. Met. iv. p. 72. Cassiodor. Var. Ep. v. 52.), as shown by the last wood-cut but one; more usually termed BESTIARIUS.

3. Venator equus. A hunter, or horse trained for the chase. Stat. Theb. ix. 685. VENATIO, 1.

4. Venator canis. A hound trained for the chase. Virg. Aen. xii. 751. VENATIO, 1., and last wood-cut.

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