Dictionnaire de l'école des antiquités grecques et romaines . ACTUARII, écrivains, abrégée en whotook les discours au Sénat, et les assemblées publiques. Dans le débat au sénat romain sur la peine capitale ofthose qui étaient inquiets dans la con-spiracy de Catilina, nous trouvons les premiers hommes-tion de la main-d'écrivains, qui ont été em-tion par Cicéron, de noter le speechof Cato. ACTUS, un Romain Mesure de longueur, également appelé actus quadratus, était égale demi un jugerum, ou 14 400 mètres carrés. Romanfeet L'actus minimus, ou simplex, a été120 pieds de long, et quatre grands, et thereforeequal à 480 pieds romains carrés

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School dictionary of Greek and Roman antiquities . ACTUARII, short-hand writers, whotook down the speeches in the senate andthe public assemblies. In the debate inthe Roman senate upon the punishment ofthose who had been concerned in the con-spiracy of Catiline, we find the first men-tion of short-hand writers, who were em-ployed by Cicero to take down the speechof Cato. ACTUS, a Roman measure of length, also called actus quadratus, was equal tohalf a jugerum, or 14, 400 square Romanfeet. The actus minimus, or simplex, was120 feet long, and four broad, and thereforeequal to 480 square Roman feet. Actuswas also used to signify a bridle-way. ACUS {fieXovT], ^^Kovis, pa(pls), a needle, a pin. Pins were made not only of metal, butalso of wood, bone, and ivory. They wereused for the same purposes as with us, andalso in dressing the hair. The mode ofplatting the hair, and then fastening it witha pin or needle, is shown in the annexedfigure of a female head. This fashion hasB 3 6 ADONIA. been continued to our own times by thefemales of Italy.. ACUS. PIN USED TO FASTEN THE HAIR, ADDICTI. [Nexi.] ADFINES. [Affines, ] ADLECTI, or ALLECTI, those per-sons under the empire who were admittedto the privileges and honours of the praetor-ship, quaestorship, aedileship, and otherpublic offices, without having any duties toperform. The senators called adlecti, seemto have been the same as the conscripti. ADMISSIONALES, chamberlains atthe imperial court, who introduced personsto the presence of the emperor. They weredivided into four classes ; the chief officerof each class was called proximus admis-sionum; and the proximi were under themagister admissionum. Their duty wascalled officium admissionis. They wereusually freedmen. ADOLESCENS, was applied in theRoman law to a person from the end of histwelfth or fourteenth to the end of histwenty-fifth year, during which period aperson was also called adultiis. The wordadolescens, however, is frequently used ina less strict sense in the Latin w

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