DELATOR  , in See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• HISTORY

history, properly one who gave See also:

• NOTICE

notice (deferre) to the See also:

• TREASURY

treasury officials of moneys that had become due to the imperial fisc . This See also:

• SPECIAL

special meaning was extended to those who lodged See also:

• INFORMATION (from Lat. informare, to give shape or form to, to represent, describe)

information as to punishable offences, and further, to those who brought a public See also:

• ACCUSATION (Lat. accusatio, accusare, to challenge to a causa, a suit or trial at law)

accusation (whether true or not) against any See also:

• PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person (especially with the See also:

• OBJECT

object of getting See also:

• MONEY

money) . Although the word delator itself, for " See also:

• COMMON

common informer," is confined to imperial times, the right of public accusation had See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long been in existence . When exercised from patriotic and disinterested motives, its effects were beneficial; but the moment the principle of See also:

• REWARD

reward was introduced, this was no longer the See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case . Sometimes the accuser was rewarded with the rights of See also:

• CITIZEN (a form corrupted in Eng., apparently by analogy with " denizen," from O. Fr. citeain, mod. Fr. citoyen)

citizen-See also:

• SHIP

ship, a See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in the See also:

• SENATE (Lat. senatus, from root sen-, as in senex, old; the root is the Sanskrit sana, cf. Gr. 'vos; the same element appears in senor, seigneur, seneschal)

senate, or a See also:

• SHARE (O. Eng. scearu, chiefly in compounds, e.g. land-scearu, a share of land, from sceran to cut; cf. " shear" )

share of the See also:

• PROPERTY

property of the accused . At the end of the republican See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period, See also:

• CICERO

Cicero (De Officiis, ii . 14) expresses his See also:

• OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think)

opinion that such accusations should be undertaken only in the interests of the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state or for other urgent reasons . Under the See also:

• EMPIRE

empire the See also:

• SYSTEM

system degenerated into an abuse, which reached its height during the reign of Tiberius, although the delators continued to exercise their activity till the reign of See also:

• THEODOSIUS

Theodosius .