caduceator
δι' ἐρημίας πολεμίων πορευόμενος → he marched on without finding any enemy, his route lay through a country bare of enemies
Latin > English
caduceator caduceatoris N M :: herald bearing a staff (caduceus) sent by non-Roman generals; priest's servant
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
cādūcĕātor: ōris, m. caduceum.
I A herald, an officer sent with a flag of truce: caduceatores = legati pacem petentes. Cato caduceatori, inquit, nemo homo nocet, Paul. ex Fest. p. 47: bellantes ac dissidentes interpretum oratione sedantur, unde secundum Livium legati pacis caduceatores appellantur, Serv. ad Verg. A. 4, 242; Liv. 26, 17, 5; 31, 38, 9; 32, 32, 5; 37, 45, 4; 44, 46, 1; Curt. 3, 1, 6; 4, 2, 15 al.—
II A servant to a priest, Arn. 5, p. 174.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
cādūcĕātŏr,¹³ ōris, m. (caduceus), envoyé, parlementaire [porteur d’un caducée] : Cato Inc. lib. fr. 4 ; Liv. 26, 17, 5 || héraut dans les mystères : Arn. 5, 25.
Latin > German (Georges)
cādūceātor, ōris, m. (caduceus), der von den Feinden an die Gegenpartei abgeschickte Herold, der Parlamentär, Unterhändler, I) eig.: caduceatore ad consulem misso, qui indutias ad sepeliendos milites peteret, Liv.: caduceatorem praemisit, qui denuntiaret etc., Curt. Vgl. Mützell Curt. 3, 1, 6. – II) übtr.: qui (Eumolpidae) postea floruerunt caduceatores hierophantae (ἱεροφάνται) atque praecones (ἱεροκήρυκες), eine Art Boten, Herolde in den eleusin. Mysterien, Arnob. 5, 25.
Latin > Chinese
caduceator, oris. m. :: 求平和之欽差
