agricbla: colonus (general term for the cultivator of a farm, ☞ ruricola poetically): arator (who tilled the state domains for a tenth of the produce; ☞ Cic., 2 Verr. 3, 23, 57): politor (a laborer to whom a piece of land was given, to be paid for by a share of the produce; ☞ Cat., R.R., 137, and Schneider, ad loc., p. 175): homo rusticus (general term). [Vid: COUNTRYMAN.] A farmer of the public revenues, etc., publicanus (with reference to his condition in life): redemptor vectigalium (with reference to the particular thing he farms).