fabricator
τὸ βέλτερον κακοῦ καὶ τὸ δίμοιρον αἰνῶ, καὶ δίκᾳ δίκας ἕπεσθαι, ξὺν εὐχαῖς ἐμαῖς, λυτηρίοις μηχαναῖς θεοῦ πάρα → I approve the better kind of evil, the two-thirds kind, and that, in accordance with my prayers, through contrivances bringing salvation at the god’s hand
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
subs.
Maker: P. and V. τέκτων, ὁ, δημιουργός, ὁ, V. μηχανορράφος, ὁ or ἡ.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
fā̆brĭcātor: ōris, m. id.,
I an artificer, framer, forger, contriver, fabricator (rare but class.).
I Lit.: ille fabricator tanti operis (mundi), Cic. Univ. 2; so, mundi, Quint, 2, 16, 12; Ov. M. 1, 57: minutorum opusculorum, Cic. Ac. 2, 38, 120: ipse doli (i. e. equi lignei) fabricator Epeos, Verg. A. 2, 264: deorum, i. e. of statues of the gods, Firm. Math. 3, 6, 9.—
II Trop.: dolor ac morbus leti fabricator uterque est, causer, producer, Lucr. 3, 472.
