rēctor ōris, m REG-, a guide, leader, director, ruler, master, helmsman, pilot: navium rectores: navis, V.: ut in curru det rector Lora, driver, O.: exterriti sine rectoribus equi, Ta.: elephanti ab rectoribus interfecti, L.

—Fig., a ruler, leader, guide, governor: civitatis: rei p., L.: Thebarum, H.: populorum, O.: summi rectoris ac domini numen: pelagi, Neptune, O.: milites, qui ad tra{*} dendam disciplinam, exemplum et rectores habebantur, officers, Ta.: Rectores iuvenum, V.