Tabellio
Tabellio a notary (Suidas, s. v.). Under the Empire the Tabelliones succeeded to the business of the Scribae in the times of the Republic [SCRIBAE]. They were chiefly employed in drawing up legal documents, and for this purpose usually took their stations in the marketplaces of towns (Capitol. Macrin. 4; Cod. 4, 21, 17; Novell. 73, 100.5, &c.). They formed a special order in the state (Gothofr. ad Cod. Theod. 12, 1, 3).
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.