Pedisequi
Pedisequi a class of slaves, whose duty was to follow their master when he went out of his house, while the anteambulo preceded him. The pedisequi seem to have formed a special class of slaves, which was almost the lowest of all (Nep. Attic. 13; Plaut. Mil. Glor. 4.2, 18; Ter. Andr. 1.1, 96; Cic. Att. 2.1. 6). There was a similar class of female slaves, called pedisequae (Plaut. Asin. 1.3, 31). Several inscriptions bearing on this point are cited in Marquardt, Privatleben, p. 148; compare Becker-Göll, Gallus, 2.154.
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.