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laudator(dictionary)
sub specie temporis(dictionary)

laudator temporis acti (iou)



laudator temporis acti noun phr. . M18.
[Latin laudator temporis acti (se puero) a praiser of past times, (when he himself was a boy) (Horace Ars Poetica).]
A person who holds up the past as a golden age.