procurator

prōcūrātor (the first o short, Ov. A. A. 1, 587), ōris, m. [procuro], a manager, overseer, superintendent, agent, administrator, deputy, procurator, keeper.

I.

In gen. (class.):

procurator peni,

Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 14:

procurator, alieni juris vicarius,

Cic. Caecin. 20, 57:

agere aliquid per procuratorem,

id. Att. 4, 16, 9 (15):

regni,

a viceroy, Caes. B. C. 3, 112:

curatori aquarum procuratorem subicit,

Front. Aquaed. 105:

aviarii,

Varr. R. R. 3, 6:

procurator nimium procurat,

Ov. A. A. 1, 587:

esse procuratorem in rem alicujus,

Dig. 3, 3, 29:

procuratorem facere,

ib. 4, 4, 24.—

II.

In partic.

A.

A manager of an estate, a steward, bailiff (class.; cf.

villicus),

Cic. de Or. 1, 58, 249:

procurator rationes accipiebat,

Petr. 30; Paul. Sent. 1, 2, 3; Vulg. Matt. 20, 8.—

B.

In the time of the emperors, one who had charge of the imperial revenues, an imperial collector, Tac. A. 12, 60; Suet. Claud. 12; id. Calig. 47; id. Vesp. 16; Plin. Pan. 36, 3.—Esp., in a province:

Judeae,

Tac. A. 15, 44:

Asiae,

id. ib. 4, 15:

Aegypti,

Suet. Ner. 35:

Galliae,

id. Galb. 12;

or in a city: urbis,

id. Caes. 79:

ludi,

Tac. A. 11, 35.—

C.

An agent or attorney to conduct an action at law, Just. Inst. 1, 6, 5; Gai. Inst. 4, 82; 84.