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|lshtext=<b>adjūtor</b>: ātus, 1, v. dep., i. q. adjuto, and also [[ante]]-[[class]]. ([[found]] in Pac., Afran., and Lucil.): adjutamini et defendite, Pac. ap. Non. 74, 2; Rib. Trag. Rel. p. 89; Pac. ap. Non. 477, 26: me adjutamini, Afran. ib.: magna adjutatus diu, Lucil. ib.<br /><b>adjūtor</b>: ōris, m. [[adiuvo]],<br /><b>I</b> one [[who]] helps, a [[helper]], [[assistant]], [[aider]], promoter ([[class]]. [[through]] all periods).<br /><b>I</b> In gen.: hic adjutor [[meus]] et [[monitor]] et [[praemonstrator]], Ter. Heaut. 5, 1, 2: ejus iracundiae, id. Ad. 1, 1, 66: ad hanc rem adjutorem dari, id. Phorm. 3, 3, 26: adjutores ad me restituendum multi fuerunt, Cic. Quint. 9: in [[psaltria]] hac emunda, Ter. Ad. 5, 9, 9: honoris, Cic. Fl. 1: ad praedam, id. Rose. Am. 2, 6; so id. de Or. 1, 59; id. Tusc. 1, 12: [[tibi]] venit adjutor, id. N. D. 1, 7: L. [[ille]] [[Torquatus]] [[auctor]] exstitit, id. Sull. 34; id. Off. 2, 15; 3, 33; id. Fin. 5, 30; id. Att. 8, 3; 9, 12; Caes. B. C. 1, 7; Sall. J. 82; Liv. 29, 1, 18: nolite dubitare libertatem consule adjutore defendere, [[with]] the [[aid]] of the [[consul]], Cic. Leg. Agr. 16; and so [[often]], id. Verr. 1, 155; id. Font. 44; id. Clu. 36; id. Mur. 84.—<br /><b>II</b> Esp., a [[common]] [[name]] of a [[military]] or [[civil]] [[officer]], an [[aid]], adjutant, [[assistant]], [[deputy]], [[secretary]], etc.: comites et adjutores negotiorum publicorum, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 3: [[dato]] adjutore Pharnabazo, Nep. Con. 4; so id. Chabr. 2; Liv. 33, 43; Suet. Aug. 39; id. Tib. 63; id. Calig. 26: rhetorum (i. e. hypodidascali), Quint. 2, 5, 3; Gell. 13, 9; and in the inscriptions in Orell. 3462, 3200 al.; under the emperors an [[officer]] of [[court]], [[minister]] (v. Vell. 2, 127; cf. Suet. Calig. 26); usu. [[with]] ab and the [[word]] indicative of the [[office]] (v. ab fin.): adjutor a rationibus, Orell. Inscr. 32: a sacris, ib. 2847: a commentariis ornamentorum, ib. 2892.— Also [[with]] gen.: adjutor cornicularii, ib. 3517: haruspicum imperatoris, ib. 3420 al. —In scenic [[language]], adjutor is the one [[who]], by his [[part]], sustains or assists the [[hero]] of the [[piece]] ([[πρωταγωνιστής]]), to [[which]] the [[class]]. [[passage]], Cic. Div. in Caecil. 15, refers; cf. Heind. ad Hor. S. 1, 9, 46: in [[scena]] [[postquam]] [[solus]] constitit [[sine]] apparatu, nullis adjutoribus, [[with]] no [[subordinate]] actors, Phaedr. 5, 5, 14; Suet. Gramm. 18; Val. Max. 2, 4, no. 4.