Ab epistulis
Ab epistulis was the chancellor's office in the Roman Empire with responsibility for the emperor's correspondence.[1] The office sent mandata (instructions) to provincial governors and other officials.[2][3]
Ab epistulis wrote in Latin (ab epistulis latinis) and in Greek (ab epistulis graecis), and composed the short responses to petitions on behalf of the emperor.[4] Holders of the position usually had a particular vocation for literary matters.[5][4]
Notable ab epistulis
Augustus punished his secretary Thallus "for divulging the contents of a letter".[6] Caligula dictated a letter to an ab epistulis.[7] Narcissus apparently worked as ab epistulis, because he was in charge of the grammata of Claudius against Agrippina.[7] Beryllus was the ab epistulis graecis of Nero.[7] The famous biographer Suetonius Tranquillus was ab epistulis to Hadrian,[8] according to the Historia Augusta until he was replaced for too-close relations with Empress Sabina.[9]
One of the leading
References
- ISBN 9788437626123. Retrieved 19 April 2017.
- ^ "Constitutiones principum". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved Aug 30, 2018.
- ^ Statius, Silvae 5, 1, 86-87
- ^ ISBN 0-415-10057-7. Retrieved Aug 31, 2018.
- ISBN 0-7607-1186-0.
- ^ Suetonius, Div. Aug., 67
- ^ a b c Millar 2005, p. 15.
- ^ "Hippo Regius, Inscription of Suetonius - Livius". www.livius.org. Retrieved 2021-03-18.
- ^ Historia Augusta, Hadrianus 11,3
- ^ Millar 2005, p. 17.
Bibliography
- ISBN 9780807863695.
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