Brewer's: Anagnostes

(Greek) A domestic servant employed by the wealthy Romans to read to them at meals. Charlemagne had his reader; and monks and nuns were read to at meals. (Greek, anaginosko, to read.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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