Ambacti
Ambacti according to Festus, s.v. the name for slaves in the Gallic language. Caesar (Caes. Gal. 6.15) mentions them along with the clientes. The most probable opinion is that they were of free origin, but had become practically the unfree retainers of their chief. (Mommsen, Rom. Hist. iv. pp. 223-4.)
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.