Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Dispensator

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. 

DISPENSA'TOR. One of the slave family in a Roman household, both in town and country, who performed the duties of a secretary and accountant in the former, and of a bailiff or steward in the latter establishment. Cic. Att. xi. 1. Suet. Galb. 12. Macrob. Sat. ii. 4. Pompon. Dig. 50. 16. 166.