Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Statores

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. 

STATO'RES. Officials or public servants who attended upon Roman magistrates in the provinces, and more especially employed for carrying letters, messages, dispatches, &c. (Cic. Fam. ii. 17. ib. 19. x. 21.) Their office was abolished by Septimius Severus, and the duties discharged by them transferred to the military. Lamprid. Alex. Sev. 52. Ulp. Dig. 1. 16. 4.