quasi+architectus+vitae+beatae

archĭtectus, i, m., = architektôn (the usual form, while † archĭtecton, ŏnis, is rare).

Form architectus.

A master-builder, architect:

fabri architectique,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 45:

Philo architectus,

Cic. de Or. 1, 14, 62; so id. Fam. 9, 2; Vitr. 1, 1; Plin. 34, 14, 42, § 148; Vulg. Eccli. 38, 28; ib. Isa. 3, 3; ib. 2 Macc. 2, 30:

ut sapiens architectus,

ib. 1 Cor. 3, 10 al.—

Trop., an inventor, deviser, contriver, author, maker:

bene factis Juppiter architectus,

Plaut. Am. prol. 45 ( = auctor atque opifex, Lambin.):

inventor veritatis et quasi architectus beatae vitae Epicurus,

Cic. Fin. 1, 10, 32 (cf. id. ib. 2, 16, 52:

architectari voluptates): princeps atque architectus sceleris,

id. Clu. 22:

Stoici architecti paene verborum,

id. Brut. 31, 118.—Hence, archĭtecta, ae, f., a female architect:

natura architecta vis,

Plin. 10, 71, 91, § 196.—

Form architecton.

A master-builder, architect, etc.:

nam sibi laudavisse hasce ait architectonem, Nescio quem, esse aedificatas has sane bene,

Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 73; Sen. Ep. 90; Sol. 32 fin. —

Trop., a master in cunning, a crafty man:

me quoque dolis jam superat architectonem,

Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 150.