Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Apparitores

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. 

APPARITO'RES. A collective name given to the public officers attached to the service of the Roman magistrates, including the ACCENSI, LICTORES, PRAECONES, SCRIBAE, VIATORES, &c. Cic. Q. Fr. 1. 1. 4. Suet. Tib. 11.

2. In the army, the servants who waited upon the military tribunes. Hirt. B. Afr. 37. Lamprid. Alex. Sev. 52.