AUTHOR Copy link • AUTHORbeginner or mover of anything: auctor (the person to whom the plan of origin of anything is due, whether he carried it through or not): in ventor (the inventor): parens (the author who has produced anything): conditor (the author who has constructed anything, laid the foundation of and arranged it): effector (he who has carried it into effect): princeps (he who stands at the head of anything; e.g., of a conspiracy): molitor (he who sets a difficult thing a going by a strong exertion): architectus (planner, contriver, etc.,: then, in a depreciating sense, the author of something bad): instimulater: concitator (he who excites to anything). (The words are found in this connection and order), parens effectorque: princeps et architectus: instimulator et concitator. The author of a law, legis inventor (he who first proposed such an enactment): legis auctor (he who first advocated it, recommended it, and caused it to be carried): legis lator (he who brought it before the people for their approbation): the author of a crime, sceleris auctor, architectus or molitor: the author of all evil, omnium malorum seminator: to consider anybody the author of anything, putare ortum esse aliquid ab aliquo. Author of a book. scriptor: qui librum scripsit or conscripsit (the actual writer of it): auctor (only so far as he is an authority for using a particular style for a particular statement, etc.,: hence not without a genitive, unless this can easily be supplied by the context: [aesopus auctor quam materiam reperit, Hanc ego polivi versibus senariis, Phaedrus. Apud quosdam auctores non invenio Lucretium Consulem, Liv..) Roman authors, Romani scriptores (who have written in Latin): rerum Romanarum auctores (Latin historians, who are our authorities for Roman history): Latinitatis auctores (writer of classical Latinity). Authors (as a class) without genitive, qui libros scribunt or conscribunt.