Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Ordinarii

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. 

ORDINA'RII. A general name for those slaves who occupied a position corresponding to what we should call upper servants in our households, including the atriensis or house porter, cellarius or cellarman, dispensator or steward, promus-condus, procurator, &c. They superintended and directed the execution of menial services, but did not themselves perform them, for they had slaves of their own (vicarii), purchased with their own money, who attended upon them. Suet. Galb. 12. Ulp. Dig. 47. 10. 15. Id. 14. 4. 5.

2. Gladiatores ordinarii. Gladiators bred and trained in the regular manner; that is, who were thoroughly instructed in the rules of their art (Seneca, Ben. iii. 28. Id. Ep. 7. Compare Suet. Aug. 45.) as opposed to the catervarii, who fought without science and in tumultuous bodies.