procreator: fabricator (he who produces or brings anything to light): (quasi) parens (founder): auctor (author): the creator of so great a work, fabricator tanti operis: the creator of a national litterature, Latinarum (Anglicarum, etc.) litterarum parens: the creator (= founder) of anything, alicujus rei parens (e.g., of a national litterature, Latinarum litterarum); a quo initium alicujus rei profectum est: the creator of the world, procreator, effector or fabricator mundi; opifex aedificatorque mundi; genitor mundi or universi; ille quasi parens hujus universitatis: everyone is the creator of his own fortune, faber est quisque fortunae suae (Sall., ad Caes., de Rep., Ora., 1); sui cuique mores fingunt fortunam (Nep., Att., 11, 6): ut quisque fortuna utitur, ita praecellet (Plaut., Pseud. 2, 3, 13).