Lewis & Short

hălŏphanta, ae, m, = ἁλοφάντης (a word comically formed after the analogy of sycophanta, συκοφάντης), a salt-informer, i. q. a rascal, scoundrel, Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 2; cf. Non. 126, 7, and see halapanta.