Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Saltator

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. 

SALTA'TOR (ὀρχηστὴς παντόμιμος). A dancer; only of mimetic dances on the stage (SALTATIO III.), or of operatic dancers at banquets and public places (SALTATIO IV.); not the performer in a religious, nor in a war-dance (SALTATIO I. and II.); the two former being regarded by the Romans as a degrading or unbecoming employment, but the two latter in nowise derogatory. Hence the term always contains an implied sense of contempt or reproach. Cic. Mur. 6. Id. Off. 1. 42. Macrob. Sat. ii. 10.