Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Delator

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

DELA'TOR (μηνυτής). A public spy, or common informer, who lived by denouncing, and getting up charges against, his fellow-citizens. Tac. Ann. iv. 30. Suet. Nero, 10.