assentator

assentātor (ads-), ōris, m. [assentor], one who assents flatteringly, a flatterer (most freq. in Cic.).

• I Lit.: semper auget adsentator id, quod is, cujus ad voluntatem loquitur, vult esse magnum, Cic. Lael. 26, 98: ita fit, ut is adsentatoribus patefaciat aures suas maxime, qui ipse sibi adsentetur et se maxime ipse delectet, id. ib. 26, 97; id. Off. 1, 14, 42; 1, 26, 91; 2, 18, 63; id. Caecin. 5, 14: Adsentatores jubet ad lucrum ire poëta Dives agris, * Hor. A. P. 420.—
• II Trop.: non auctor, sed adsentator mali, one who connives at, Tert. adv. Herm. 10.

assentātor (adsentātor), ōris, m. (assentor), der unablässige Beipflichter, I) im üblen Sinne, der Reder nach dem Munde, Liebediener, Jasager, niedrige Schmeichler, assentator perniciosus, Cic.: quasi assentator populi, Cic.: assentator mulierum, Cic.: ass. reginae humillimus, Vell.: assentatores regii, Liv.: an aliquid intersit inter assentatorem et amicum, Cic.: cavendum est, ne assentatoribus patefaciamus aures, ne adulari nos sinamus, Cic. – II) im guten Sinne, der völlige Beipflichter, Zustimmer zu etw., non auctor, sed assentator mali, Tert. adv. Herm. 10.

assentator [CL] , flatterer, ‘yes-man’. b assenter. adsentator, adolator, blanditor GlC A 258 (cf. (v. assentari)); quod ~oris proprium est, qui ad alterius vivit nutum J. Sal. Pol. 482B.  b c1150 hujus donationis et confirmationis mee testes et ~ores sunt hii E. Ch. Scot. 189.

assentator , oris. m. et, v. assentatrix
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adsentātor (ass-) ōris, m

• adsentor, a flatterer, fawner: peniciosus: mulierum: regii, L.