aliptes

ἑνὸς ἀτόπου δοθέντος τἆλλα συμβαίνει → one absurdity having been given, the others follow

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.

aliptes aliptae N M :: one who anoints; manager of school of wrestlers; master of wrestlers/the ring