detractor Copy link • detractor: obtrectātor: the d.s and enviers of Scipio, ob. et invidi Scipionis, Cic.: Quint.: v. disparager. (Or expr. by part. etc. of verbs under detract: to care little for d.s, obtrectantes parvi facere, obtrectantium clamores negligere: see L. G. § 638.)