Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Libripens

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

LI'BRIPENS. Before the introduction of stamped money, all sums were reckoned by the pound weight, and not by the number of pieces; whence the person who weighed out the amount to be given for any purchase was termed libripens, the weighman. (XII. Tab. ap. Gell. xv. 13. 4.) But the name was retained in after times, although the custom from which it arose had long fallen into disuse, to designate the person who reckoned up and distributed their pay to the soldiery, whom we might term the quarter-master of a regiment. Plin. H. N. xxxiii. 13.