amanuensis
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amanuensibus Noun: masculine ablative plural, Noun: masculine dative plural of amanuensis
- a clerk, secretary, a manu servus (cf. ab, II. B. z. p.), only in Suet. Tib. 3 and Ner. 44.
AMANUENSISor 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.)
[P.S](a manu servus, ὑπογραφεύς). A slave or freedman employed in writing at his master's dictation. The amanuensis is not to be confounded with another sort of slave, ad manum servus, who was a general factotum, kept ready at hand for any kind of business. Suet. Nero, 44.