subfragator

suffrāgātor ( subf- ), ōris, m. [id.], one who votes for another, a supporter, partisan, suffragator (class.):

suffragatorum comparatio,

Cic. Mur. 21, 44:

historicis notior, suffragatoribus obscurior,

id. ib. 7, 16:

ex fucosis firmi suffragatores evadunt,

Q. Cic. Pet. Cons. 9, 35:

meus in petendis honoribus,

Plin. Ep. 4, 17, 6; id. Pan. 92, 3:

competitoris sui suffragatorem agere,

Val. Max. 4, 5, 3:

candidati laborare desiimus: suffragatores incipimus,

Sen. Brev. Vit. 17, 5.—With gen.-obj.:

quaesturae,

for the office of quæstor, Sen. Ben. 7, 28, 2.—

II.

Transf., in gen., a favorer, supporter:

te et suffragatores tuos ulciscar,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 4, 20:

propter studia suffragatorum,

Varr. R. R. 3, 5, 18:

cum suffragatore suo,

Suet. Vesp. 23; Plin. Ep. 3, 20, 5; App. Dogm. Plat. 2, p. 16, 56.