I.a singer, poet.
I. In gen.: “omnibus hoc vitium est cantoribus,” Hor. S. 1, 3, 1; so id. ib. 1, 3, 129; “1, 2, 3 (mutato nomine cantorem pro musico dicit, Acron.): Thamyras,” Prop. 2 (3), 22, 19. “cantor Apollo,” Hor. A. P. 407 (cf. Apollo): “(Caligula) Threx et auriga idem cantor atque saltator,” Suet. Calig. 54.—In a contemptuous sense: “cantor formularum,” Cic. de Or. 1, 55, 236; cf. Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 132.— And with gen. of the person (conformably to cano, II. B.), an extoller, eulogist: “cantores Euphorionis,” Cic. Tusc. 3, 19, 45.—
II. Esp., in the lang. of the drama, = χορευτής, an actor, player (cf. G. Herm. Opusc. I. p. 298), Cic. Sest. 55, 118: “donec cantor vos plaudite! dicat,” Hor. A. P. 155; Suet. Calig. 54.
