WRITER Copy link • WRITEROne who writes, scribens: qui scribit: qui litteras scribit. A good writer, qui eleganti or nitida, manu litteras scribit (after Plaut., Pseud., 1, 1, 28). the writer of a letter, qui litteras, epistolam scripsit, exaravit (after Cic.). One whose profession or office it is to write, scriba; also, (post-Augustan), a manu servus; ab epistolis; amanuensis (secretary, amanuensis); librarius (a transcriber of books). Author of a book, scriptor: qui librum scripsit or conscripsit (the actual writer of it): auctor (only so far as he is an authority for using a particular style, for a particular statement, etc.; hence not without a genitive, unless this can easily be supplied by the context †): Roman writers, Romani scriptores (who have written in Latin); rerum Romanarum auctores (Latin historians, who are our authorities for Roman history); Latinitatis auctores (writers of classical Latinity). Writers (as a class), without genitive, qui libros scribunt or conscribunt.