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* compīlātĭo, ōnis, f. [compilo], lit., a raking together, pillaging, plundering; hence, concr., sportively of a collection of documents, a compilation: Chresti, Cic. Fam. 2, 8, 1.

compīlātor, ōris, m. [compilo], a plunderer: veterum, an epithet of Virgil (on account of his imitation of Homer, Ennius, etc.), acc. to Hier. praef. Hebr. Quaest. in Genes., and Isid. Orig. 10, 44.