instĭtor, ōris, m. [insisto], a person who sells goods for another, a factor, broker, agent; a huckster, hawker, peddler (cf.: circulator, negotiator): amata nautis multum et institoribus
, Hor. Epod. 17, 20: mercis
, Liv. 22, 25: hibernae tegetis
, Juv. 7, 221.—II. Trop.: eloquentiae
, who hawks about his eloquence
, makes an exhibition of it
, Quint. 11, 1, 50; id. 8, 3, 12.