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ostiarius

v. 2. ostiarius, I

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What it meant

1. ostĭārĭus — Lewis & Short

ostĭārĭus, ii, v. 2. ostiarius, I.

2. ostĭārĭus — Lewis & Short

ostĭārĭus, a, um, adj.ostium,

I of or belonging to the door: ancilla, portress, Vulg. Johan. 18, 17; usu. subst.

I ostĭā-rĭus, ii, m., a door-keeper, porter (syn.: janitor, portitor), Varr. R. R. 1, 13; Plin. 12, 14, 32, § 64; Vulg. 1 Par. 9, 22.—By the rich they were, in early times, occasionally chained up, Suet. Rhet. 3.—In the Christian church, a sexton, Cod. Th. 1, 3, 6; 16, 2, 27.—

II ostĭāria, ae, f., a female doorkeeper, portress, Ambros. in Luc. 10, § 75; Vulg. 2 Reg. 4, 5; id. Johan. 18, 16.—

III ostĭārĭum, ii, n., a tax upon doors, a door-tax: columnaria, ostiaria, frumentum, vecturae imperabantur, Caes. B. C. 3, 32 (called exactio ostiorum, Cic. Fam. 3, 8, 5).

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