Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Tabellarius

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. 

TABELLA'RIUS (γραμματόφορος). A letter-carrier, or special messenger, by whom the correspondence of a private individual, or the government despatches, were conveyed to the friends of the former or to the employers of the latter; but not a postman, in our sense of the word, for the ancients had no such convenience as a general post. (Cic. Phil. ii. 31. Id. Fam. xii. 12. xv. 17.) The illustration (Tabellarius/1.1) is from a sepulchral bas-relief, with the inscription TABELLARIUS underneath.

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