secretary Copy link Outline I. A person employed confidentially as a writer1. scrība (any kind of clerk or writer2. servus ad manum (amanuensis)II. A minister of state • secretary: I. A person employed confidentially as a writer: 1. scrība (any kind of clerk or writer: denoting at Rome a class of inferior officials, but elsewhere, esp. with kings, an office of trust): he (Philip) employed him as his s., [ad manum] habuit eum scribae loco, Nep. Eum. 1 (see the place): cf. Liv. 2, 12, med., scriba cum rege [Porsena] sedens pari fere ornatu: Plin. 2. servus ad manum (amanuensis): Cic. de Or. 3, 60, 225: also, a manu servus, Suet. Caes. 75. And without servus: Thallo a manu, id. Aug. 67. II. A minister of state: Phr.: s. of state for the war department, colonies, etc., *qui rebus bellicis praeest, qui coloniis (administrandis) praeest s. praepositus est, etc. (Not secretarius, which is a word quite without classical authority.)
SECRETARY Copy link • SECRETARYscriba: qui est alicui a manu or ab epistolis [Vid: SCRIBE]: *secretarius (as modern technical term). A prince’s private secretary, quem princeps ad manum habet scribae loco (Vid: Nep., Eum., 1, 5); scriba principis or regis (Plin., 12, 14, 32). A sort of cabinet, armarium