calator

călātor, ōris, m. [id.; a servant for calling, etc., a crier; hence],

• Lit., a servant, esp. of priests, Suet. Gram. 12; cf. Serv. ad Verg. G. 1, 268; Inscr. Orell. 2431 sqq.; so freq. in inscriptions.—
• II In gen., any servant, attendant; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 38 and 225 Müll.: egomet mihi comes, calator, equus, agaso, armiger, Plaut. Merc. 5, 2, 11 (852); id. Ps. 4, 2, 52 (1007); id. Rud. 2, 3, 5 (335).

calātor, ōris, m. (v. calare), der Rufer, Ausrufer, nominis, Charis. 126, 20. – dann eine Art Diener, Aufwärter, zunächst der pontifices u. flamines, Suet. gr. 12. Corp. inscr. Lat. 6, 2184 u. 31034 (vgl. Serv. Verg. georg. 1, 268 u. Gloss.) u. übh., Plaut. merc. 852 u. rud. 335.

călātŏr, ōris, m. (calo), ¶ 1 crieur, héraut au service de prêtres divers : Suet. Gramm. 12 ¶ 2 esclave de magistrats[ Gloss. 2, 95, 42 ] ou de particuliers : Pl. Merc. 852 ; Ps. 1009 || peut-être le même que le nomenclator, cf. Char. 126, 20.

calator , oris. m.
呌人之僕。

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CALATOR

CALA´TOR(KALATOR, Orell. Inscr. 2431, 2432; καλήτωρ, Dionys.), originally a slave employed as a caller or crier (Plaut. Merc. 5.2, 11; Pseud. 4.2, 52; Bud. 2.3, 5): the nomenclator or prompter of names to a candidate was a specimen of this class (Hor. Epist. 1.6, 50; aliena memoria salutamus, Plin. Nat.29.19; AMBITUS). The derivation from καλεῖν (Lat. calare; cf. kalendae) is given by Paulus Diaconus (p. 18, Müller); but he ridiculously adds that it was because they had to come when they were called. In this sense the word became obsolete; but it survived as the name of certain attendants on the members of the higher priesthoods, each of whom nominated a calator from among his own freedmen.

Besides the ARVALES (q. v.), we find in the four inscriptions preserved by Orellius, Kalatores Pontificum et Flaminum, 2431; Kalatores Titialium Flavialium, 2432 (here a boy dying at 15 has held the office); Calator Epulonum Libertus, 2433; Dispensator Calatorum Augurum, 2434, cf. Suet. de Ill. Gramm. 100.12: and Orellius remarks that all sacerdotia had their calatores. (Marini, Atti de' Fratelli Arvali, p. 210; Henzen, Acta Fr. Arvalium, pp. 7.8.160; Marquardt, 6.219; Mommsen, Staatsr. i.2 344.)

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Calātor

(from calo, to call; Gk. καλήτωρ, from καλέω). Originally a slave employed as a crier; later, the nomenclator (q. v.) who accompanied a candidate for political office on his canvass, and prompted him ( Epist. i. 6, 50). (See ambitus.) The word is also applied to certain attendants on the members of the higher orders of priesthood.