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a Secretary, who was an Officer appeartaining to the Publick or Magistrate, that wrote Acts or Decrees, and gave out Dispatches. Every Magistrate had his Secretary, so that there were Secretaries, whom they called Scribae Aedi∣litii, Praetorii, Quaestorii: They were not admit∣ted to the Management of the principal Offices
of the Republick, unless they relinquished their Profession, as we have an Instance of it in the Person of Cn. Flavius, a Libertine's Son, who was Secretary to an Aedilis Curulis, who ha∣ving sued for and obtain'd the Office of Aedile, was opposed therein, and not allowed to enter upon it, as Livy says, before he was first obliged by Oath to exercise the Profession of Secretary no more: They were called by other Names in the Time of the Emperors, viz. Notarii, be∣cause they made use of Abbreviations, and short Notes in writing, insomuch that they writ as fast as one could speak, of which Martial informs us, L. 14. Epigr. 208.
Currant verba licet, manus est velocior illis: Nondum lingua, suum dextra peregit opus.