Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Anteambulo

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

ANTEAM'BULO. A slave whose duty it was to precede the lectica of his master or mistress, and clear the way through a crowd. (Suet. Vesp. 2.); hence the same name is also applied to the freedman or client who performed the obsequious office of walking before his patron when he went abroad. Mart. Ep. ii. 18.