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nōmenclātor (nōmencŭlātor , Mart. 10, 30, 23; Suet. Aug. 19; id. Calig. 41; id. Claud. 34), ōris, m. id.,
I.one who calls a person or thing by name, a nomenclator; among the Romans, a slave who attended his master in canvassing and on similar occasions, for the purpose of telling him the names of those he met in the street, Cic. Att. 4, 1, 5; id. Mur. 36, 37: “nomenclatori memoriae loco audacia est,” Sen. Ben. 1, 3, 10; id. Ep. 19, 11; id. Ben. 6, 33, 4.—Under the emperors, a slave who told his master the names of the other slaves: “servorum causā nomenclator adhibendus,” Plin. 33, 1, 6, § 26.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 4.1.5
    • Cicero, For Lucius Murena, 36.37
    • Suetonius, Divus Augustus, 19
    • Suetonius, Caligula, 41
    • Suetonius, Divus Claudius, 34
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 33.26
    • Seneca, de Beneficiis, 1.3.10
    • Seneca, de Beneficiis, 6.33.4
    • Seneca, Epistulae, 19.11
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