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AUCTOR. Among the Romans the seller was called auctor; and public, sales were made by fixing a spear in the forum, and a person who acted as crier stood by the spear the catalogue of the goods to be sold was made in tables called auctionariae.



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BOTTO, Antonio, Cancoes (Edicao definitiva de toda a obra poetica do auctor acrescentada de alguns ineditos).
Auctor and Actor: A Narratological Reading of Apuleius' The Golden Ass, Berkeley: University of California Press.
5) Whinnom in 1974 pointed to El Auctor's involvement in, and partial responsibility for, the action of the novel as well as his partisanship of Leriano, a partisanship El Auctor obviously expects his reader to share.
 
 
 
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