AGA´SO
AGA´SO a groom, a slave whose business it was to
take care of the horses. (Plaut.
Mere. 5.2, 11;
Liv. 43.5;
Plin.
Nat. 35.134.) The word is also used for a driver of beasts of
burthen (Apul.
Met. 6.100.18, 7.100.18), and is sometimes
applied to a slave who had to perform the lowest menial duties, (Hor.
Serm. 2.8, 72; Pers. 5.76.)
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