aliptes

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Ῥᾷον παραινεῖν ἢ παθόντα καρτερεῖν → Patientiam suadere facile, non pati → Es spricht sich leichter zu, als stark zu sein im Leid

Menander, Monostichoi, 471

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

ăliptēs: or ălipta, ae, m., = ἀλείπτης,
I the manager in the school for wrestlers, who took care that the wrestlers anointed their bodies with unguents, in order to give them the necessary suppleness, and exercised them in the ring, master of wrestling, or of the ring: ut aliptae, virium et coloris rationem habere, * Cic. Fam. 1, 9, 15: Geometres, pictor, aliptes, Juv. 3, 76; aliptā egere, Cels. 1, 1 Daremb.