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LNS

adversitor, adversitōris

(advorsitor, advorsitōris)

adversus

noun (m., 3^rd declension)

one who goes to meet another
a slave who went to meet his master, in order to conduct him home

Abbreviations

adversitor (archaic advor-), ōris, m. adversus, one who goes to meet another; a slave who went to meet his master, in order to conduct him home: “advorsum ierant proprie locutus est, nam adversitores dicuntur,” Don. ad Ter. Ad. 1, 1, 1; cf. also Plaut. Most. 4, 1, 23, and 2, 32. Among the dramatis personae of the Mostellaria of Plautus, PHANISCVS ADVORSITOR is found; but the word is nowhere used in the play itself.