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provincial governors, some agentes, the
curiosi (Gr****: διατρέχοντες,
diatrechontes) were
appointed as
inspectors and
acted as a sort of
secret agents,...
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Constantinople that
housed foreign envoys.
Various inspectors, the
diatrechontes (διατρέχοντες, the old
Roman cursores) and
messengers (μανδάτορες, mandatores)...
- (θυρωροί, "doorkeepers"),
skoutarioi (σκουτάριοι, "shield-bearers") and
diatrechontes (διατρέχοντες, "runners"). Only a
handful of
subaltern officers of the...