Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Procurator

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. 

PROCURA'TOR. In a literal sense, one who acts as a proxy or agent on behalf of another; whence the term was used as a title for the head man or superintendent of a Roman household, both in town and country establishments. Though himself a slave, he had the entire management of his master's property and dependants, thus acting in the capacity of our steward or maître d'hotel in town, and bailiff or agent in the country. Senec. Ep. 14. Columell. i. 6. 7. Plin. Ep. iii. 19. 2. Cic. Or. i. 58. Id. Att. xiv. 16.

2. Procurator peni. Plaut. Pseud. i. 2. 14. Same as CELLARIUS and PROMUS.

3. Procurator regni. A viceroy, or deputy governor. Caes. B. C. iii. 122.

4. An officer who administered the property and collected the dues from any estates in town, or in the provinces belonging to the emperors or to the senate (Suet. Cal. 47. Plin. Paneg. 36.). These persons were not slaves, but selected from the equestrians (Suet. Vit. 2.), or from the class of freedmen. Id. Otho, 7.