Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Anagnostes

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

ANAGNOS'TES (ἀναγνώστης). A slave, whose duty it was to read aloud to his master in his study, or to the guests at table. (Cic. Att. i. 12. Nepos, Att. 14. Aul. Gell. iii. 19.) Also a person who read out passages from the favourite poets in the theatre or public places (Aul. Gell. xviii. 5. 1.), like the recitatori, or spiegatori of modern Naples.