frēnātor, ōris, m. id., a curber, tamer, controller (post-Aug.). Lit.: (sol) ignipedum frenator equorum, Stat. Th. 1, 27.

— Poet. transf.: ingentis frenator Sarmata conti, i. e. a hurler, Val. Fl. 6, 162.

— Trop.: infinitae potestatis domitor ac frenator animus, Plin. Pan. 55, 9.