Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Anteambulo

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. 

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.