AMANUENSIS
AMANUENSIS or
A MANU SERVUS, a slave, or
freedman, whose office it was to write letters and other things under his
master's direction. The amanuensis must not be confounded with another sort
of slaves, called
ad manum servi, who were
always kept ready to be employed in any business. (
Suet. Jul. 74,
Aug. 67,
Ner. 44,
Tit. 3,
Vesp. 3;
Cic. de Orat. 3.60, 225; Pignor.
de Servis, 109.)
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