NOMENCLA´TOR
NOMENCLA´TOR For the ordinary nomenclator, see
AMBITUS Vol. 1. p. 100
a. There was also a
nomenclator
censorius to attend upon the censor (who had no lictors): he
was a freedman of the censor and held the same place as the
accensus of other magistrates [ACCENSUS]. The use of a nomenclator in the duties of the censorial
office, especially in the
equitum census or
recognitio, is obvious. [See CENSUS; EQUITES.] Inscriptions mentioning the
nomenclator censorius may be found in
Mommsen's
Staatsrecht, i. p. 359. As the censorial power
passed to the emperor, it is natural that we find these attendants
reappearing as:
nomenclatores a censibus
attached to the imperial bureau which received petitions for admission to
the Equites (
C. I. L. 14.3553). [See also
MAGISTER A CENSIBUS]
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G.E.M]