Lexicographical Neighbors of Delators
Literary usage of Delators
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General History of Rome from the Foundation of the City to the Fall of by Charles Merivale (1886)
"Remarks on the law of "Majestas" and the proceedings of the " delators," or
informers. (AD 14-20.) THE human appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ dates from ..."
2. The Influence of Wealth in Imperial Rome by William Stearns Davis (1910)
"The delators. Many a Roman fortune was ruined, not by costly buildings, ...
While the "delators" were hardly cultivated as luxuries by the high-born ..."
3. Ancient History for Colleges and High Schools by Philip Van Ness Myers (1899)
"This was called delation, and the prosecutors delators?- Now the laws for the
punishment of treason were lax, and lent themselves readily to the practices ..."
4. The Two Republics: Or, Rome and the United States of America by Alonzo Trévier Jones (1891)
"The best and noblest of the citizens were still marked out as the prey of delators
whose patron connived at enormities which bound their agents more closely ..."
5. The Revelation of St John: Expounded for Those who Search the Scriptures by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg (1851)
"... the antichristian claims of the emperor.1 Dio Cassius names, among many delators
who were condemned to death under Nerva, another philosopher, Seras. ..."
6. Thirty Years' View; Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1856)
"After the arrest of Spencer, the delators discovered that he had meditated these
crimes before he left the United States, and had let his intention become ..."
7. A History of Rome by Robert Fowler Leighton (1883)
"The delators sprang up again. The ranks of the senate were thinned. In AD 189 a
pestilence appeared followed by a famine. Commodus gave no heed to the ..."
8. A history of the Romans under the empire by Charles Merivale (1865)
"... before the prince of delators, Memmius Regulus, and courted him, not always
successfully, by the surrender of their estates or their mistresses. ..."
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