Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Mensores

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. 

MENSO'RES. A general name for persons employed in taking measurements of any kind; as

1. Land surveyors (Columell. vi. 1.); also termed agrimensores.

2. Surveyors who measured out and distributed the several sites to be occupied by the different divisions of tents, &c. in a Roman camp; as contradistinguished from metatores, whose duty consisted in selecting the position itself, which the entire camp was to occupy. Veget. ii. 7.

3. Under the empire, certain officers who selected and marked the houses upon which each soldier was to be billeted during a march, or for a given period. Cod. Theodos. 7. 8. 4.

4. Mensores aedificiorum. Builders; i. e. persons who contracted to build an edifice after a specified plan furnished to them by an architect. Plin. Ep. x. 19. 5. Trajan. ad Plin. Ep. x. 20. 3.

5. Mensores frumentarii. Corn meters; who were employed to measure the corn brought by the Tiber into the public granaries (horrea). Paul. Dig. 27. 1. 26.