fā^brĭcātor

I. an artificer, framer, forger, contriver, fabricator (rare but class.).

I. Lit.: ille fabricator tanti operis (mundi), Cic. Univ. 2; so, mundi, Quint, 2, 16, 12; Ov. M. 1, 57: minutorum opusculorum, Cic. Ac. 2, 38, 120: ipse doli (i. e. equi lignei) fabricator Epeos, Verg. A. 2, 264: deorum, i. e. of statues of the gods, Firm. Math. 3, 6, 9.—

II. Trop.: dolor ac morbus leti fabricator uterque est, Lucr. 3, 472.