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captātĭo, ōnis, f. [capto],

  1. I. a reaching after or catching at something (rare): verborum, Cic. Part. Or. 23, 81: puerilis vocum similium, Quint. 8, 3, 57: testamenti, legacy-hunting, Plin. 20, 14, 57, § 160; Quint. 8, 6, 51.
  2. II. In fencing, t. t., a feint, Quint. 5, 13, 54.

captātor, ōris, m. [capto], one who eagerly reaches after, endeavors to obtain, or strives for something (rare; not in Cic.).

  1. I. Lit. only in Prud. στεφ. 5, 17.
  2. II. Trop.: aurae popularis, that courts the popular breeze, Liv. 3, 33, 7.
    Esp., one who hunts after legacies, a legacy-hunter, Hor. S. 2, 5, 57; Petr. 141; Juv. 5, 98; 10, 202.

captātōrĭus, a, um, adj. [captator]; in the Lat. of the jurists, of or pertaining to legacy-hunters: institutiones, the establishing of a person as one’s heir on condition of being also made heir by him, Dig. 28, 5, 70; 28, 5, 69: scripturae, ib. 28, 30, 63.

* captātrix, īcis. f. [captator], she who strires after or aims at any thing: scientia, captatrix veri similium, App. Dogm. Plat. p. 16.