AGENT Copy link • AGENTactor (alicajus rei: doer of anything, often auctor et actor (Caes.), illo auctore atque agente, B.C, 1, 26): confector (one who completes a work). To be a free agent, sui juris, or suae potestatis, or in sua potestate esse: integrae ac solidae potestatis esse (to be one’s own master): nulla necessitate astrictum esse (bound by no necessity). Not to be a free agent, ex alterius arbitrio pendere (but not aliunde or extrinsecus pendere, sometimes given, without reference to the context, from Cic., ad Div., 5. 13, 2). Notural agents, inanima (plur. opposed to animalia): res naturales: ratione carentia: rationis expertia. To be anybody’s agent (= manager of his affairs), alicui rationibus esse (from an inscription): alicujus res ac rationes curare.