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.)
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.