ISBN: 9781154693621

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: .among the Romans, but the office was one of trust, and letters were only confided to those who knew the roads well and could read and write. Indeed, a Roman letter-carrier was usually entrusted with the contents of the epistles sent by him, and was despatched as a sort of living This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: .among the Romans, but the office was one of trust, and letters were only confided to those who knew the roads well and could read and write. Indeed, a Roman letter-carrier was usually entrusted with the contents of the epistles sent by him, and was despatched as a sort of living commentary upon them. He explained that which was obscure, and added such details as might be demanded of him. Cicero's Dionysius seems to have been a messenger of this kind, though he was also tutor in the orator's family, t If a Roman was obliged word trCdjuman, or the Arabic tordjeman, trogman from targem, to translate. Cicero ad Fam. i. 2, ep. 7. + Cicero ad Att. i. 7, ep. 4, 7; i. 8, ep. 7. Dionysius appears, in the end, to have turned out badly, and Cicero exclaims pathetically (ad Att. i. 1, ep. 13.), "Alas! where shall I find another postman 1" MESSENGERS. to employ an ordinary slave as messenger, he mentioned the circumstance in his letter as something unusual. There appears, however, even in Bome, to have existed something not very unlike a public post and parcels' delivery company; for certain contractors, merchants, and public functionaries kept a number of messengers in common. These messengers were under public protection, and enjoyed some peculiar privilegesOfficial messengers, or couriers, in modern times are persons sent by governments with official despatches on important occasions. In England they are usually called queen's messengers; abroad they are better known as "couriers de cabinet." These messengers were formerly among the most valuable servants of the government. They were able to bear personal testimony to the truth of important events; and their reports must have been often singularly interesting to generations by whom newspapers were. Books, , Embassies-and-foreign-courts~~Eustace-Clare-Grenville-Murray, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<

ISBN: 1154693627

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