prōcūrātor (noun M) : (the first
* O short, Ov. A. A. 1, 587), , m. procuro, a manager, overseer, superintendent, agent, administrator, deputy, procurator, keeper.
* In gen. (class.): procurator peni,Plaut. Ps. 2, 2, 14: procurator, alieni juris vicarius,Cic. Caecin. 20, 57: agere aliquid per procuratorem,id. Att. 4, 16, 9 (15): regni,a viceroy,Caes. B. C. 3, 112: curatori aquarum procuratorem subicit,Front. Aquaed. 105: aviarii,Varr. R. R. 3, 6: procurator nimium procurat,Ov. A. A. 1, 587: esse procuratorem in rem alicujus,Dig. 3, 3, 29: procuratorem facere,ib. 4, 4, 24.
* In partic.
* A manager of an estate, a steward, bailiff (class.; cf. villicus),Cic. de Or. 1, 58, 249: procurator rationes accipiebat,Petr. 30; Paul. Sent. 1, 2, 3; Vulg. Matt. 20, 8.
* In the time of the emperors, one who had charge of the imperial revenues, an imperial collector, Tac. A. 12, 60; Suet. Claud. 12; id. Calig. 47; id. Vesp. 16; Plin. Pan. 36, 3.—Esp., in a province: Judeae,Tac. A. 15, 44: Asiae,id. ib. 4, 15: Aegypti,Suet. Ner. 35: Galliae,id. Galb. 12; or in a city: urbis,id. Caes. 79: ludi,Tac. A. 11, 35.
* An agent or attorney to conduct an action at law, Just. Inst. 1, 6, 5; Gai. Inst. 4, 82; 84.

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