Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Literatus

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. 

LITERA'TUS. Marked or lettered; especially applied to any object of use or ornament which has the maker's or owner's name inscribed upon it (Plaut. Rud. iv. 4. 111. 114. Ib. ii. 5. 21.), as in the annexed (Literatus/1.1) and many other articles, found at Pompeii. The letters are L. ANSIDIODO upon the handle.

2. Branded; meaning a slave marked on the forehead for thieving or running away (Plaut. Cas. ii. 6. 49.); also termed inscriptus, notatus, stigmosus.

3. Lettered; meaning versed in letters; applied to an educated slave, whose literary knowledge and acquirements were turned to account by his master in a variety of ways, as a librarian, reader, amanuensis, secretary, &c. Orbilius ap. Suet. Gramm. 4.

4. (γραμματικός). A grammarian; i. e. a scholar who employs himself in writing notes and commentaries upon the works of other authors. Nepos. ap. Suet. Gramm. 4.

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