Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Viatores

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. 

VIATO'RES. Runners, or officers attached to the service of the Roman magistrates, and employed as messengers to summon the senators from the country, the people to the comitia, or individuals to the presence of a magistrate. They were especially assigned to those magistrates who had no lictors, the tribunes of the people and censors; but in early times, the consuls, dictator, and praetors had their runners as well as lictors. Cic. Sen. 16. Varro ap. Gell. xiii. 12. Liv. vi. 15. xxii. 11. ii. 56.