Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Parochus

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. 

PAR'OCHUS (πάροχος). An officer appointed to every station throughout the Roman provinces, who for a certain stipend, fixed by the state, undertook to lodge and entertain ambassadors, magistrates, and persons travelling on public business. Cic. Att. xiii. 2. Hor. Sat. i. 5. 46.