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LNS

lēgifer, lēgiferī

legifer

noun (m., 2^nd -R declension)

a law-giver

Abbreviations

lēgifer, fera, ferum, adj. lex-fero, lawgiving (poet.). Adj.: Minos, Ov. Am. 3, 10, 41: legifera Ceres (as the foundress of the social life of mankind), Verg. A. 4, 58.

— Subst.: lēgifer, eri, m., a law-giver, applied to Moses, Lact. 4, 17, 7; Tert. Apol. 19 fin.; Prud. στεφ. 3, 363; Vulg. Isa. 33, 22.