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|lshtext=<b>portĭtor</b>: ōris, m. [[portus]],<br /><b>I</b> a tollgatherer (at a [[seaport]]), a receiver or [[collector]] of [[customs]], a [[custom]]-[[house]] [[officer]] (syn. [[telonarius]]), Plaut. Trin. 4, 4, 15; id. As. 1, 3, 7; Cic. Off. 1, 42, 150; id. Agr. 2, 23, 61; id. Rep. 4, 7, 20 (Non. 24, 22); [[they]] forwarded letters: epistulam ... ad portitores esse delatam, Ter. Phorm. 1, 2, 100; cf.: portitorum simillimae sunt januae lenoniae; Si adfers, tum [[patent]], Plaut. As. 1, 3, 88.—On [[account]] of [[their]] [[strict]] examinations, transf., a [[woman]] [[who]] pries [[into]] [[every]] [[thing]], Plaut. Men. 1, 2, 8.<br /><b>portĭtor</b>: ōris, m. from the [[root]] por, [[whence]] [[porto]], a [[bearer]], carrier.<br /><b>I</b> A carrier, conveyer.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Usually one [[who]] conveys [[people]] in a [[boat]] or [[ship]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In gen., a [[ferryman]], [[boatman]], [[sailor]], [[mariner]] ([[poet]]. and in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]]): [[Plato]] cum [[flumen]] [[nave]] transisset, non ab [[illo]] [[quicquam]] [[portitor]] exegisset, etc., Sen. Ben. 6, 18, 1.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In partic., the [[ferryman]], i. e. [[Charon]] ([[poet]].): ubi [[portitor]] [[aera]] recepit, etc., Prop. 4 (5), 11, 7: Orci, Verg. G. 4, 502; id. A. 6, 298: Lethaei [[amnis]], Stat. Th. 12, 559; Val. Fl. 1, 784 et saep.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> By [[land]], a carrier, carter, wagoner: Portitor Ursae, i. e. the [[constellation]] [[Bootes]], [[who]], as it were, drives the [[wain]], Stat. Th. 1, 693.—<br /><b>II</b> A [[bearer]], carrier ([[mostly]] [[post]]-[[class]].; cf. bajulus): Helles, i. e. the Ram, Col. 10, 155 (in Mart. 9, 72, 7, we [[read]] [[proditor]] Helles): lecti sui, Claud. Epigr. 49, 17: frumenti, Cod. Just. 11, 4, 1: ciborum, Prud. στεφ. 5, 405: apicum, Sid. Ep. 6, 3.