Apparitōres
The general name for the free attendants of the magistrates at Rome, as distinguished from
the
servi publici. They received wages (
merces) from
the public treasury, and had places of their own in the theatre and circus (
Tac. Ann. xvi. 12), doubtless near the magistrates
on whom they waited. They were divided into five classes —the
Accensi, Lictores, Praecones,
Scribae, and Viatores, treated in separate articles.