Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Saltuarius

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. 

SALTUA'RIUS. Strictly, a slave charged with the superintendance of a tract of woodland and pasture (saltus), whom we might call a forester or ranger (Inscript. ap. Orelli, 1599.); but the word is mostly applied in a more general sense to designate the steward of a landed estate, who performed the same duties, and stood in a similar relation to the country tenants of his master, as the insularius in the city; i. e. he had the general superintendance of the lands and farms, attended to the letting and keeping up of repairs, that the property might not be wilfully or carelessly deteriorated. Pet. Sat. 53. 9. Pomp. Dig. 7. 8. 16. African. Dig. 32. 1. 58.