Accipiter, accipitris, masc. gen. pen. cor. Virg. Plin. A hawke or any birde that liueth by pray.Accipiter pecuniarum. Pla. pro Nummorum auidissimo. A poller, an extortioner.Accipiter humipeta.A Sperhawke.Accipiter hierax, A Saker.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
accĭpĭter, tris (earlier also tĕris, Prisc. p. 695 P.), m. (f.Lucr. 4, 1006) [com. deriv. from accipio; see 2. acceptor; but cf. w)ku/pteros, swift-winged], a general name for birds of prey, esp. those of the falcon kind, Plin. 10, 8, 9, 21; Ter. Ph. 2, 2, 16; Lucr. 5, 107; Cic. N. D. 3, 19; Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 50 al.—B. In partic. 1.The common hawk, Falco Palumbarius, Linn.; Hor. C. 1, 37, 17 sq.; Ov. M. 5, 605 sq.; Col. 8, 4, 6; 3, 8, 4 al.: sacer, because auguries were taken from it, Verg. A. 11, 721 (cf. Hom. Od. 15, 525 sq.).—2.The sparrowhawk, Falco Nisus, Linn., used in fowling; Mart. 14, 216.—II.Transf., of a rapacious man: labes populi, pecuniai accipiter, Plaut. Pers. 3, 3, 5.