Actuarii
Actuarii or ACTARII
1. Clerks who compiled the Acta Publica. [ACTA] The name is also sometimes given to the Notarii, or short-hand writers, who took down the speeches in the senate and the courts (Suet. Jul. 55; Sen. Ep. 33, 9); respecting whom and the use of short-hand among the Romans, see NOTARII
2. A clerk who kept the accounts of a private person (Petron. 53).
3. Military officers whose duty it was to keep the accounts of the army, to see that the contractors supplied the soldiers with provisions according to agreement, &c. (Aurel. Vict. Caes. 33, 13; Amm. Marc. 20.5; Cod. Just. xii. tit. 38, s. 5, 16; xii. tit. 50.)
4. The title of certain physicians at the court of Constantinople. [MEDICUS]
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.