prolocutor
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Olivia undertook to be our prolocutor, and delivered the whole in a summary way, only saying, 'We were thrown from our horses.'
From The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
Ulysses, a dwarf, and the prolocutor for the Grecians, gave me leave, that am a pigmy, to do an embassage to you from the cranes.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8 by William Carew Hazlitt
Olivia undertook to be our prolocutor, and delivered the whole in the summary way, only saying, "We were thrown from our horses."
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various
This prolocutor, also, was generally the author of a sketch of the piece; but the actors were not confined to the mere outline which he had furnished.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop
William Twisse, D.D., of Newbury, was to be prolocutor, or chairman, of the assembly; and he was to have two "assessors," to supply his place in case of necessary absence.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Rossiter Johnson
