Ab epistulis was the chancellor's office in the Roman Empire with responsibility for the emperor's correspondence.[1] The office sent mandata (instructions) to provincial governors and other officials.[2][3]
Ab epistulis wrote in Latin (ab epistulis latinis) and in Greek (ab epistulis graecis), and composed the short responses to petitions on behalf of the emperor.[4] Holders of the position usually had a particular vocation for literary matters.[5][4]
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provincial governors and other officials. Abepistulis wrote in Latin (abepistulis latinis) and in Greek (abepistulis graecis), and composed the short responses...
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Latin: [ˈɡaːiʊs sweːˈtoːniʊs traŋˈkᶣɪlːʊs]), commonly referred to as Suetonius (/swɪˈtoʊniəs/ swih-TOH-nee-əs; c. AD 69 –...
court under the Roman emperor Claudius. He is described as praepositus abepistulis (in charge of correspondence). He reportedly had great influence over...
Aug. lib.'s dismissal. Sometimes, the offices of the a rationibus and abepistulis, the secretary in charge of the imperial correspondence, were joined...
Pius." Marcus replaced a number of the empire's major officials. The abepistulis Sextus Caecilius Crescens Volusianus, in charge of the imperial correspondence...
studied the process of the emperor's appeal. A correspondence office (abepistulis) and an office that controlled the Roman Empire's finances (a rationibus)...
Pius". Marcus replaced a number of the empire's major officials. The abepistulis Sextus Caecilius Crescens Volusianus, in charge of the imperial correspondence...
son and successor Commodus, and executed. Paternus first appears as abepistulis Latinis for emperor Marcus Aurelius, who had entered into negotiations...
the text was written and/or edited by Trajan's Imperial secretary, his abepistulis. Given the scarcity of literary sources, discussion of Trajan and his...
Alexandra. His father, Heliodorus, was of equestrian status, and served as Abepistulis for Hadrian. Heliodorus later served as Praefectus augustalis, the prefect...
Hadrian's request. At around this time, Hadrian dismissed his secretary abepistulis, the biographer Suetonius, for "excessive familiarity" towards the empress...
Marcius Agrippa (fl. late 2nd/early 3rd century) was originally a slave serving as a beautician. He later became a freedman in some unknown way and then...
Antoninus Pius. He was of Ancient Egyptian or Greek origin and became abepistulis under Hadrian, and later prefect of Egypt between 137 and 142. According...
senator, but was nonetheless a man of some standing: he had been Hadrian's abepistulis, followed the emperor on his travels, and was prefect of Egypt at the...
under the charge of an official known as a commentariis (cf. a secretis, abepistulis). Municipal authorities also kept a register of their official acts....
daughter of Titus Flavius Sempronius Aquila (b. ca 115), Secretarius abepistulis Graecis, and wife Claudia (b. ca 120), daughter of an unknown father...
Alexander (Ancient Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος), nicknamed Pēloplátōn (Πηλοπλάτων "Clay-Plato"), also known as Alexander of Seleucia and Alexander the Platonic,...
who married Gaius Avidius Heliodorus (born c. AD 100). Heliodorus was abepistulis under the emperor Hadrian and praefectus Aegypti between AD 138 and 140...
council which provided day-to-day advice to the emperor. He was appointed Abepistulis graecis, the official responsible for Imperial correspondence in Greek...
Titinia gens, he served successfully in the army, later becoming secretary abepistulis under the Emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan. He ended his career of...
and Verus reigned from 161 to 180). Cornelianus acted as secretary (abepistulis Graecis) to Marcus Aurelius. The grammarian Phrynichus Arabius speaks...
his cursus honorum. The first attested appointment Sanctus held was abepistulis Graecis or secretary of his Greek language correspondence; according...
manage the Greek and Latin libraries at Rome. This was followed by the abepistulis graecis, or overseer of the Emperor's Greek correspondence; Birley dates...
increasing importance: procurator of the imperial properties in Alexandria; abepistulis graecis; a libellis; and last a rationibus. Sablayrolles dates these...
positions he held in Rome include a studiis, a libellis (also known as abepistulis), and a censibus. At this point Maecianus was promoted to senior equestrian...
reason the emperor Severus made him his private secretary and tutor (abepistulis) of his two sons Caracalla and Geta. He was promoted to the consular...
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