MAGISTER SCRINII LIBEL∣LORUM;
Master of the Requests, the Per∣son who represented to the Prince the Requests and Petitions of particular Persons, and recei∣ved his Answer, which was reduced into Wri∣ting by his Clerks who were Thirty Four in Number, and were called Libellenses: This may be seen in the Notitia Imperii. Cognitiones & preces Magister Libellorum tractabat, & Acta Li∣bellenses scribebant. We have still in being the Form of a Petition that was presented to the Emperor Antoninus Pius, in these Words.
Cum ante hos dies conjugem & filium amiserim, & pressus necessitate corpora eorum fictili sarcophago commendaverim, donec quietis locus quem eme∣raem aedificaretur, viâ Flaminiâ, inter milliare se∣cundum & tertium euntibus ab Ʋrbe, parte laevâ, custodia Monumenti Flam. Thymeles Amelosae M. Signii Orgilii: Rogo, Domine, permittas mihi in eodem Loco, in marmorco sarcophago quem mibi mo∣do comparavi, ea corpora colligere, ut quando & ego esse desiero, pariter cum eis ponar.
This was a Petition presented by Arrim Al∣phius the Freed-man of Arria Fadilla the Empe∣ror's Mother, importing his Desire to have Leave given him to gather up his Wife and his Sons Bones to be laid in a Marble-Coffin, which before he had put in an Earthen-Vessel, till such Time as the Place which he had bought to raise a Monument for them, was ready; to whom Answer was given in this Manner.
Decretum fieri placet; Jubentius Celsus pro∣magister subscripsi. III Non. Novemb.