Anagnostae
Anagnostae also called Lectores, were slaves, who were employed by the educated Romans in reading to them during meals, the bath, and at other times. (Cic. Att. 1.1. 2, Fam. 5.9, 2; Nep. Att. 14; Suet. Aug. 78; Mart. 3.50; Plin. Ep. 1.15, 3.5, 14, 9.36; Gel. 3.19.)
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.