tentātor

I. An assailant, attempter, tempter: integrae Dianae (Orion), Hor. C. 3, 4, 71.—Esp., the tempter, i. e. the devil, Vulg. Matt. 4, 3; Juvenc. 1, 384.—

II. He who attacks: autumnus, tentator valetudinum, Tert. Anim. 48 init.