message Copy link Outline 1. nuntius (usu. but not always including tidings, news)2. mandātum (commission, direction; however conveyed) • message: 1. nuntius (usu. but not always including tidings, news): a m. conveyed by ambassadors, legatorum n., Cic. Fam. 12, 24: also sometimes nuntium: nova nuntia referre, Cat. 63, 75: to send a letter or m. to inform any one ..., per litteras aut per nuntium facere aliquem certiorem, Cic. Att. 11, 25, 3 (where nuntius is strictly the bearer of the message): v. messenger. 2. mandātum (commission, direction; however conveyed): to convey such a m. to any one, mandata ad aliquem perferre, Cic. Att. 7, 14. See also tidings, news.