Mónitor, pen. cor. monitôris, m. g. Verbale. Tere. A warner: an aduertiser: a monisher: a counsailour: one that putteth in minde: a prompter.Hoc monitore & authore huiusce sententiæ.Cic.Hee being connsailout and author of that opinion.Monitor non exauditus. Horat. Non fatuus monitor.Cic.Quos ego habui omnium mearum actionÛ monitores. Ci. Which were my counsailours and aduertisers in dooing all things that I did.Sub monitore vinitor opus facere debet. Colu. The dresser of vines shoulde haue one by him to tel and instruct what he must doe. Monitores. Quint. Lawyers that did prompt and instrnctorators in certaine cases and pointes of the lawe pertaining to their causes: counsailours.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
mŏnĭtor, ōris, m. [id.], one who reminds one of any thing, an admonisher, monitor (syn.: hortator, auctor). I. In gen.: nil opus fuit monitore, Ter. Heaut. 1, 1, 119: monitor et praemonstrator, id. ib. 5, 1, 2: est enim (hoc praeceptum) non tam acutum quam necessarium, magisque monitoris non fatui quam eruditi magistri, Cic. de Or. 2, 24, 99: stet ad latus monitor, Sen. Ep. 94, 72: officii, Sall. J. 85, 10: monitoris egere, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 67.—II. In partic. A.The counsellor who furnishes an orator with his points of law, a remembrancer, an assistant: video mihi non te sed hunc librum esse responsurum, quem monitor tuus hic tenet, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 16, 52.—B.He who reminds one of people's names, a nomenclator: per monitorem appellandi sunt, Cic. Mur. 36, 77; Plin. Pan. 23.—C.An overseer, superintendent, e. g. of youth; an instructor, guide, teacher: juvenis monitoribus asper, Hor. A. P. 163: generosa pubes Te monitore regi, mores et facta priorum Discere, Stat. S. 5, 3, 147; id. Th. 12, 205.—Of farm-slaves, Col. 1, 9, 4; 7, Paul. Sent. 3, 6, 35; Dig. 33, 7, 8; leader, general of troops, Sil. 8, 370.—D.A prompter in the theatre: monitores qui monent histriones in scenā, Paul. ex Fest. p. 138 Müll.; Inscr. Orell. 4916.—E. In relig. lang., one who leads in praying: MONITOR AVGVR, Inscr. Don. cl. 1, 44: sine monitore, quia de pectore oramus, precantes sumus, Tert. Apol. 30.