tailor
tailor
subs.
P. ἀκεστής, ὁ (Xen.).
subs.
P. ἀκεστής, ὁ (Xen.).
TAILOR
sartor (this word however rests on no classical authority for in Plaut. Capt. 3 5 3 it denotes “a hoer” or “weeder ” from sarrio. Consult Class.. Mus. vol. v. p. 334); *vestium artifex; vestifica feminine (Inscript.). To be a tailor vestes facere: *sartoriam artem vestificinam exercere. The tailor makes the man (proverbially) homo ex veste aut ex conditione quae vestis nobis circumdata est vulgo aestimatur (after Sen. Ep. 47 14).
sartor (this word however rests on no classical authority for in Plaut. Capt. 3 5 3 it denotes “a hoer” or “weeder ” from sarrio. Consult Class.. Mus. vol. v. p. 334); *vestium artifex; vestifica feminine (Inscript.). To be a tailor vestes facere: *sartoriam artem vestificinam exercere. The tailor makes the man (proverbially) homo ex veste aut ex conditione quae vestis nobis circumdata est vulgo aestimatur (after Sen. Ep. 47 14).
tailor:
1. vestītor (a maker of clothes): fullers, t.s, and painters, fullones, et v., et pictores, Lampr. Alex. Sev. 41, 3.
2. vestĭfĭcus, f. -a: Inscr.: also vestĭfex, Inscr.
3. vestiārius nĕgōtiātor (a dealer in clothes, merchant t.): Scaev. Dig. 38, 1, 45: so vestiarius alone, Ulp. Dig. 14, 3, 5: vestiarius tenuarius, Inscr., seems to denote a maker of thin clothes
4. expr. sometimes by textor (weaver), since garments were woven: and by the help of the t. apes the scanty garb of Cato, exiguaeque togae simulet textore Catonem, Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 13.
5. sartor (prop. a mender of old clothes): Non. 7, 28: a common word for t. in Mediaeval L.: v. Ducange. Phr.: to be a t., *vestificinam exercere (Kr.): to keep a t.'s shop (for the sale of ready-made clothes), officinam promercalium vestium exercere, Suet. Gram. 23 the t. makes the man, *vestis facit virum, Erasm.: (cf. stultissimus est qui hominem aut ex veste, aut ex conditione quae vestis modo nobis circumdata est aestimat, Sen. Ep. 47, 16).
1. vestītor (a maker of clothes): fullers, t.s, and painters, fullones, et v., et pictores, Lampr. Alex. Sev. 41, 3.
2. vestĭfĭcus, f. -a: Inscr.: also vestĭfex, Inscr.
3. vestiārius nĕgōtiātor (a dealer in clothes, merchant t.): Scaev. Dig. 38, 1, 45: so vestiarius alone, Ulp. Dig. 14, 3, 5: vestiarius tenuarius, Inscr., seems to denote a maker of thin clothes
4. expr. sometimes by textor (weaver), since garments were woven: and by the help of the t. apes the scanty garb of Cato, exiguaeque togae simulet textore Catonem, Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 13.
5. sartor (prop. a mender of old clothes): Non. 7, 28: a common word for t. in Mediaeval L.: v. Ducange. Phr.: to be a t., *vestificinam exercere (Kr.): to keep a t.'s shop (for the sale of ready-made clothes), officinam promercalium vestium exercere, Suet. Gram. 23 the t. makes the man, *vestis facit virum, Erasm.: (cf. stultissimus est qui hominem aut ex veste, aut ex conditione quae vestis modo nobis circumdata est aestimat, Sen. Ep. 47, 16).