adversitor

From LSJ

πολλὰ μεταξὺ πέλει κύλικος καὶ χείλεος ἄκρου → there is many a slip twixt cup and lip, there's many a slip twixt cup and lip, there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip, there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip, there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip

Source

Latin > English

adversitor adversitoris N M :: one who goes to meet another; slave who went to meet/accompany master home

Latin > English (Lewis & Short)

adversĭtor: (archaic advor-), ōris, m. adversus,
I one who goes to meet another; a slave who went to meet his master, in order to conduct him home: “advorsum ierant proprie locutus est, nam adversitores dicuntur,” Don. ad Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 1; cf. also Plaut. Most. 4, 1, 23, and 2, 32. Among the dramatis personæ of the Mostellaria of Plautus, PHANISCVS ADVORSITOR is found; but the word is nowhere used in the play itself.

Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)

adversĭtŏr (advors-), ōris, m., esclave qui va à la rencontre de son maître : Pl. St. 443 ; Don. Ad. 2.

Latin > German (Georges)

adversitor, (advorsitor), ōris, m. (adversum itor), der Sklave, der seinem Herrn entgegengeht, um ihn nach Hause zu holen (wie advorsitor Phaniscus im Personenverzeichnisse von Plaut. Most.), Donat. Ter. adelph. 1, 1, 1.