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The term "arbitrator" in literature has often been imbued with the role of a neutral, authoritative judge who is essential for resolving disputes and maintaining order. In early modern political thought, authors like Hobbes used the term to designate a figure to whom disputing parties submit their rights, emphasizing the idea of natural law and social contract ([1], [2], [3]). Similarly, in works that span cultures and epochs—from Cicero’s insistence on royal adjudication, where private individuals could not serve as arbitrators ([4]), to Locke’s commentary on the lack of recourse for the conquered ([5])—the arbitrator emerges as a central facilitator of justice. The concept is also employed in more personal or informal contexts, as seen in literary works from Galdós ([6]) and Mickiewicz ([7]), where the arbitrator serves as both mediator and emblem of fairness, and even in settings as varied as a prince's intervention in disputes ([8]) or a symbolic arbiter represented by nature in La Fontaine's fables ([9]). These examples collectively illustrate how the arbitrator has come to represent both the pursuit of impartial judgment and the broader quest for equitable social order in literature ([10], [11], [12]).
  1. And therefore it is of the Law of Nature, "That they that are at controversie, submit their Right to the judgement of an Arbitrator.
    — from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
  2. This other, to whose Sentence they submit, is called an ARBITRATOR.
    — from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
  3. And Distributive Justice, the Justice of an Arbitrator; that is to say, the act of defining what is Just.
    — from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
  4. Nor was any private man allowed to be the judge or arbitrator in any suit; but all disputes were terminated by the royal sentence.
    — from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations by Marcus Tullius Cicero
  5. But the conquered, or their children, have no court, no arbitrator on earth to appeal to.
    — from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke
  6. componedor arbitrator.
    — from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós
  7. Have also due regard for my grey hairs, for I have known greater sportsmen than you, and I have often judged between them as an arbitrator.
    — from Pan Tadeusz; or, The last foray in Lithuania by Adam Mickiewicz
  8. Shall we ask the prince to act as arbitrator?”
    — from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  9. Instead of judge, it is his plan To play accuser and defamer.' A tree was next the arbitrator, And made the wrong of man still greater.
    — from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine
  10. Want of union, want of mutual assistance, want of a common arbitrator to resort to in their differences.
    — from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
  11. I now offer him, what seems to me fair and liberal, that we submit the points at issue to you as arbitrator.
    — from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. Sherman
  12. Yet he was popular, for he knew every one of the citizens by name, and gave impartial judgment in all cases referred to him as arbitrator.
    — from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

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