CLERK Copy link • CLERKclergyman, Vid: Scholar, doctus: doctrina instructus: eruditus. (The words are found in this connection and order), doctus atque eniditus. A great clerk, perdoctus: pereruditus: doctus atque imprimis eruditus: mire or doctissime eruditus, etc. [Vid: LEARNED.] To be a great clerk, multa doctrina esse. Writer or other helper to a judge, tradesman. etc., scriba (scribe): minister (general term). A merchant’s clerk, mercatoris minister. Clerk of the market, agoranomus (ἀγορανόμος: at Rome, this was one office of the aedilis plebis): praefectus annonae (who presides over the sale, etc., of corn). Parish-clerk, famulus sacrorum.