Assertor, assertòris, m. g. Verbale. Liu.He that setteth one at libertie, and defendeth him from bondage. Also he that claymeth a man to be bondé.Accommodare se assertorem veritati.To apply himselfé to by a mainteiner and defender of the trmh.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
assertor (ads-), ōris, m. [id.], one who formally asserts that another is free or a slave.I.A restorer of liberty.A.Lit.: adsertores dicuntur vindices alienae libertatis, Don. ad Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 40; cf. 2. assero, I. A.: populo detrectante dominationem atque adsertores flagitante, Suet. Caes. 80: Catoni gladium adsertorem libertatis extorque, Sen. Ep. 13.—B.Trop., a defender, protector, deliverer, advocate: publicus adsertor dominis suppressa levabo Pectora, Ov. R. Am. 73: senatūs adsertor, Luc. 4, 214 (qui in libertatem defendis senatum, Schol.); Mart. 1, 53, 5: adsertores Camilli, id. 1, 25; Suet. Galb. 9: dignitatis ac potentiae patriciorum, id. Tib. 2: quaestionis,
he who carries an inquiry entirely through
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is master of the subject
, Macr. S. 7, 4.—II.He who claims or declares one to be a slave (cf. 2. assero, I. B.): cum instaret adsertor puellae, Liv. 3, 46, and besides only id. 3, 47.
