Carnifex, pen. cor. huius carnificis, pen. cor. m. g. Cic.A hangman: a tormentor that quartereth. Per meraphoram, a murdeter: a cruell persou.Liu.Carnifex & tortor.Cic.Epulæ carnisices. Claud. That pulleth a man to great paines after. Manus carnifices. Sil. Alij legunt. Carnisicæ, Carnificus, ca, com. Carnifices pedes. Mart. Carnificium cribrum legitur apud Flaut.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
carnĭfex or carnŭfex, fĭcis, m. [v. caro-facio], an executioner, hangman, Plaut Bacch. 4, 4, 37; id. Capt. 5, 4, 22; id. Rud. 3, 6, 19; Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 45, 118; id. Phil. 11, 3, 7; id. Quint. 15, 50; id. Rab. Perd. 4, 12; Quint. 5, 10, 59; Lucr. 3, 1017; Cat. 97, 12; Juv. 8, 175 al.; this office was considered so disgraceful that he was not permitted to live in the city, Cic. Rab. Perd. 4 sq.; but in the Subura, Mart. 2, 17, 1 sqq.—b. As a term of reproach, scoundrel, villain, rascal, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 220; 2, 1, 41; Ter. And. 1, 2, 12; id. Eun. 4, 4, 3; Cic. Pis. 5, 11.—II.Trop., tormenter, murderer, Ter. And. 4, 1, 27 Don.; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 3, 9; Liv. 2, 35, 1; 2, 56, 8; 2, 42, 23fin.: Fortuna gloriae carnifex,