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lănista , ae, m.,
I.a trainer of gladiators, fencing-master (class.; cf.: gladiator, athleta, pugil).
I. Lit.: “num ille lanista omnino jam a gladiatore recessisse videtur,” Cic. Rosc. Am. 40, 118: “reus, tamquam clemens lanista,” id. Att. 1, 16, 3: “regia verba lanistae,” Juv. 11, 8: “circumforaneus,” Suet. Vit. 12: “lanistarum familias ex urbe expellere,” id. Aug. 42; Juv. 6, 215.—So of fowls: “rixosarum avium,” Col. 8, 2, 5.—
II. Transf., an inciter, instigator, agitator; one who stimulates to wrong or violence: “hic se ad eum lanistam contulit,” Cic. Rosc. Am. 6, 17: “ne videret unius corporis duas acies, lanista Cicerone, dimicantes. Ego lanista?” Cic. Phil. 13, 19, 40: “lanistis Aetolis dimicare,” Liv. 35, 33, 6.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (8):
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 1.16.3
    • Cicero, Philippics, 13.19.40
    • Cicero, For Sextus Roscius of Ameria, 40.118
    • Cicero, For Sextus Roscius of Ameria, 6.17
    • Suetonius, Divus Augustus, 42
    • Suetonius, Vitellius, 12
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 35, 33.6
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 8.2.5
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