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  • The delator would appear to have been a Jeromite, Fray Joan de Santa
  • A.D. 58 he brought about the downfall of the former delator, P. Suillius.
  • To delate means to accuse or denounce something and the cake delator was created as an instrument to further hatred and humiliation of cakes.
  • This fee was il quarto, or the fourth part of the criminals fine, which came to the delator.
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