calumniator
πενία μόνα τὰς τέχνας ἐγείρει → poverty alone promotes skilled work, necessity is the mother of invention, necessity is the mother of all invention, poverty is the mother of invention, out of necessity comes invention, out of necessity came invention, frugality is the mother of invention
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
Ar. and P. συκοφάντης, ὁ.
Latin > English
calumniator calumniatoris N M :: false accuser; pettifogger, chicaner; perverter of law; carping critic
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
călumnĭātor: (kălumnĭātor; v. the foreg.), ōris, m. calumnior; mostly t. t.,
I a contriver of tricks or artifices, a pettifogger, a perverter of law, a chicaner (sometimes, perhaps, branded on the forehead with the letter K = calumniator; cf. Voss, Arist. 1, 17; Ernest. Clav. Cic. Ind. Leg. s. v. Remmia): si calvitur et moretur et frustratur. Inde et calumniatores appellati sunt, quia per fraudem et frustrationem alios vexarent litibus, Dig. 50, 16, 223: scriptum sequi calumniatoris esse: boni judicis, voluntatem scriptoris auctoritatemque defendere, Cic. Caecil. 23, 65: calumniatores apponere, id. Verr. 2, 1, 10, § 27: calumniatorem quaerere, id. ib. 2, 2, 8, § 22; 2, 2, 10, § 26: egens, id. Clu. 59, 163; id. Quint. 28, 87; Phaedr. 1, 17, 2; Mart. 11, 66, 1; Dig. 3, 2, 4, § 4; Suet. Rhet. 4.—
II Trop.: calumniator sui, one who is too anxious in regard to his work, over-scrupulous, Plin. 34, 8, 19, § 92; cf. calumnia, III. B., and calumnior, II. B. >
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
calumnĭātŏr,¹³ ōris, m. (calumnior), chicaneur, celui qui fait un emploi abusif de la loi : dicemus calumniatoris esse officium verba et litteras sequi, neglegere voluntatem Her. 2, 14, nous dirons que c’est le fait d’un chicaneur que de s’attacher à la lettre et au texte, et de laisser de côté les intentions, cf. Cic. Cæc. 65 || faux accusateur : calumniatores ex sinu suo apposuit Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 27, il aposta de faux accusateurs tirés de son entourage intime || calumniator sui Plin. 34, 92, qui se cherche chicane à soi-même, critique trop sévère de soi-même. orth. kal-, v. Cic. Amer. 57.
Latin > German (Georges)
calumniātor, ōris, m. (calumnior), der Ränkeschmied, Rechtsverdreher, Schikaneur, trügerische Ankläger, aliquis c. atque improbus, Cic.: delator et c., Mart.: Epidius c., Suet.: calumniatorem apponere, Cic.: scriptum sequi calumniatoris esse; boni iudicis, voluntatem scriptoris auctoritatemque defendere, Cic.: litem sibi inferri aegerrime calumniator patitur, Sen. – Plur., Augustin. ep. 17, 4. – calumniator sui, der Künstler, der übertriebene Kritik gegen sich selbst übt, Plin. 34, 92.
