Delator

Word DELATOR
Character 7
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To delate means to accuse or denounce something and the cake delator was created as an instrument to further hatred and humiliation of cakes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Marcus Tullius Cicero was therefore appointed special prosecutor nominis delator in the case of Gaius Verres. ❋ Robert Harris (2006)

The delator would appear to have been a Jeromite, Fray Joan de Santa ❋ James Fitzmaurice-Kelly (N/A)

A.D. 58 he brought about the downfall of the former delator, P. Suillius. ❋ Thomas Ross Mills (N/A)

Pliny tells us that Silius had risen by acting as a _delator_ under Nero, who made him consul A.D. ❋ Thomas Ross Mills (N/A)

Figure after figure they live before us, till the procession culminates with the crowning horror of the blind delator, L. Valerius Catullus ❋ Harold Edgeworth Butler (1914)

It is true indeed, that the delator was an unpopular person in the Roman Empire, and, besides, in accusing a ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

As the same fate awaited the wife of the delator also, unless she recanted, we have here an example of three, possibly four, persons suffering capital punishment on the accusation of a man actuated by malice, solely for the reason that his wife had given up the evil life she had previously led in his society (St. Justin Martyr, II, Apol., ii). ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

"The deletion was made from a sense of duty so pure that the delator did not hesitate to confess the sin of his own commission through which he had discovered the treachery of Don Diego and his associates." ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)

This fee was il quarto, or the fourth part of the criminals fine, which came to the delator. ❋ Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 (1910)

Ravenna before a given day, and then had purchased pardon by coming forward as a _delator_ against Boethius. ❋ Senator Cassiodorus (1872)

The qualificators were not informed of the names of the accused, the delator, or the witnesses. ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)

The heads of this accusation, extracted from the first report and from two subsequent additions made by the delator, amount to these. ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)

Palfurius Sura, the philosopher, who was his chief delator, accusing those who refused to recognize his divinity, however much _he_ may have believed in that divinity, had not the right to demand that a single Christian in Rome or the provinces should do the same. ❋ Albert Pike (1850)

A _delator_, or professional informer, was an infamous character. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

This fee was 'il quarto,' or the fourth part of the criminal’s fine, which came to the delator. ❋ Benvenuto Cellini (1535)

In ancient Greece the word was the Athenian counterpart of the Roman delator, a public informer. ❋ Unknown (2009)

_delator_ they have been implicated as parties to a conspiracy, they hurry to the palace -- are received in portentous silence by the ushers and pages in attendance -- are conducted to a saloon, where (as in every where else) the silence of night prevails, united with the silence of fear and whispering expectation. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

(Madrid, 1896).] [Footnote 217: Zumel gives the date (Blanco Garcia, Segundo proceso, p. 40) as January 21; the delator, Santa Cruz, fixes the date a day earlier (Blanco Garcia, Segundo proceso, p. 20).] [Footnote 218: Blanco Garcia, Segundo proceso, p. 31: ❋ Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James (1921)

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