ministrator
ἢν μή τις ὥσπερ σφηκιὰν βλίττῃ με κἀρεθίζῃ → may no one squeeze me and tease me like a wasp | may no one smoke me and tease me like a wasp | but if anyone annoys me and rifles my nest, they'll find a wasp inside | still if you wake a wasps' nest then of wasps you must beware
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
mĭnistrātor: ōris, m. id.,
I an attendant, waiter, servant (class.): (turbam) transeo ministratorum, per quos, signo dato, ad inferendam cenam discurritur, Sen. Ep. 95, 24: vinum dominicum ministratoris gratia est, cup-bearer, Petr. 31, 2; Dig. 50, 16, 203: MERCVRIVS, Inscr. Fabr. 114: accensos ministratores, Cato esse scribit, Varr. L. L. 7, § 18 Müll.: cum auriganti Caio ministratorem exhiberet, play the assistant, the instructor, Suet. Vit. 17: cum te ipsum, Sulpici, objurgabam, quod ministratorem peteres, non adversarium, Cic. de Or. 2, 75, 305: quasi ministrator, aderat, subiciens, quid dicerem, id. Fl. 22, 53.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
mĭnistrātŏr,¹⁴ ōris, m. (ministro), serviteur [en part., qui sert à table] : Cic. Tusc. 5, 62 ; Sen. Ep. 95, 24 ; Petr. 31, 2 || celui qui assiste un orateur dans une cause pour lui suggérer des arguments, lui rappeler des faits, etc. ; assesseur : Cic. de Or. 2, 305 ; Fl. 53.
