hortator

When the wind dropped, the professional oarsmen took their places in the outriggers, the hortator started to mark the stroke on his drum, and thirty muscled backs bent to the task.

The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

Of his heart pounding away like a hortator drumming at ramming speed.

The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

TWENTY-THREE Stroke, stroke, stroke came the beat of the gavel of the hortator.

The Eternal Mercenary Sadler, Barry 1980

So that even now, when the hortator of the bireme struck the skin hide of the drum to set the measure for the oarsmen, Casca could feel a twinge seem to ripple over his back, for a slave master's lash, on the galley he had slaved on, had made its mark there.

The Eternal Mercenary Sadler, Barry 1980

The hortator who beat the time looked to be a Gaul from the size and coloring of him.

The Eternal Mercenary Sadler, Barry 1980

'Nec tuus est genitor nos infitiatus amicos, hortator studii causaque faxque mei: cui nos et lacrimas, supremum in funere munus, et dedimus medio scripta canenda foro.'

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

The only instances I have found that are not from Ovid's didactic verse are the present passage and xii 23-24 'tu bonus hortator, tu duxque comesque fuisti,/cum regerem tenera frena nouella manu'.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

Apul Met.ii. p. 119, ed.Elm. "Ecce, inquam, Veneris hortator et armiger Liber advenit ultro," where see Pricæus.

The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

Feeling remained and he felt his heart beating in a hunting rhythm because the sound-feedback through the ear was gone, and the hortator had lost his audible beat.

Instinct George Oliver Smith 1946

From the hortator the great man glanced at him; and when he dropped his oar all the section of the ship on his side seemed aglow.

Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ 1901