| The chief character, Orfitus, is managing director, bankroller, and peculator of the company. |
| The Emperor had understood perfectly that his information was correct and that the principal inspector was a peculator. |
| The man who was not a sinecurist or a peculator was pretty sure to be a profligate or a gambler. |
| As Finlay points out in his thoughtful history of Greece, Belisarius must have been a peculator on a large and dangerous scale. |
