PEDI´SEQUI
PEDI´SEQUI a class of slaves, whose duty was to
follow their master when he went out of his house, while the anteambulo
preceded him. The pedisequi seem to have formed a special class of slaves,
which was almost the lowest of all (
Nep.
Attic. 13; Plaut.
Mil. Glor.
4.2, 18; Ter.
Andr. 1.1, 96;
Cic.
Att. 2.1. 6). There was a similar class of female slaves, called
pedisequae (Plaut.
Asin. 1.3, 31). Several inscriptions bearing on this point are
cited in Marquardt,
Privatleben, p. 148; compare
Becker-Göll,
Gallus, 2.154.
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