clerk Copy link Outline I. A clergymanII. An accountant or other writer • clerk: I. A clergyman: q. v. II. An accountant or other writer: actŭārius; scrība: v. accountant, secretary. Phr.: to be a c., scriptum facere, Liv.: v. clerkship: c. of the market, praefectus annonae (but only with ref. to provisions): Tac.; in the Greek phraseology of Pl., ăgŏrānŏmus (= ἀγορανόμος): c. of the customs, scriba portorii (Kr.): c. of the works (in building), (?) exactor operum (strictly a kind of taskmaster): v. ex. in Forcell. s. v.: parish c., (?) minister sacrorum.
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.