author Copy link Outline I. A maker, contriver, originator1. auctor2. condĭtor (i. e. one who puts together)3. inventor (v. INVENTOR)4. rĕpertor5. princeps, ĭpis (beginner, chief)II. The writer of a book1. scriptor2. auctor (a word which applying as it does to other things besides books, requires to be used with caution, and only where the context furnishes the necessary limitation3. condĭtor (i. e. composer) • author: I. A maker, contriver, originator: 1. auctor: they were unwilling to be the a.s of a war, auctores belli esse nolebant, Caes.: the a. of a plan, consilii a., Caes.: v. founder. 2. condĭtor (i. e. one who puts together): the a. of the whole affair, c. totius negotii, Cic.: the a. of Roman law, c. Romani juris, Liv. 3. inventor (v. inventor): the a. of all the arts, omnium artium i., Caes.: Cic. 4. rĕpertor: the a. of laws, legum r., Quint.: the a. of a new system of law, novi juris r., Tac. 5. princeps, ĭpis (beginner, chief): the a. of a plan, consilii p., Cic.: v. framer, contriver, inventor. II. The writer of a book: 1. scriptor: a.s of accounts of their own actions, scriptores rerum suarum, Cic.: a perspicuous a., s. luculentus, Cic.: the a. of satyric dramas, satyrorum s., Hor.: a.s of great genius arose there, provenere ibi scriptorum magna ingenia, Sall.: that very ancient a., Lysias, vetustissimus ille s., Lysias: Cic. 2. auctor (a word which applying as it does to other things besides books, requires to be used with caution, and only where the context furnishes the necessary limitation: it is used in Cic. only of an authority for a particular opinion or statement): Polybius an exceedingly good a. (i. e. authority; q. v.) writes, P. bonus a. in primis scribit, Cic. Off. 3, 32, 113 (cf. Att. 12, 18, 1: "quos nunc lectito auctores," where it denotes advisers or warranters of a particular course of action): writings ruinous to their a., scripta auctori perniciosa suo, Ov.: a.s of comedy, auctores comoediae, Quint.: the a. of the African war, Belli Africi a., Suet. 3. condĭtor (i. e. composer): the a. of a history, historiae c., Ov.: an a. of poems, c. carminum, Curt.: v. writer, composer.
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.