pay-master Copy link Outline 1. trĭbūnus aerārius (to the troops)2. dispensātor (in a household • pay-master: 1. trĭbūnus aerārius (to the troops): Varr. L. L. 5, 36, 181 (quibus attributa erat pecunia ut militi reddant, tribuni aerarii dicti): Cato in Gell. 7, 10: in later times, the duty of paying the troops fell to the lot of the quaestors (Dict. Ant. p. 1149). Or expr. by circuml., *qui militibus stipendia numerare (persolvere) debet. Kr. gives dispensare pecuniam, from Nep. Cim. 4; but the phr. there denotes the function of treasurer or steward rather than pay-master. 2. dispensātor (in a household: a kind of steward): Varr. L. L. 5, 36, 183: Suet. Vesp. 22.