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Delatores – Who Were The Professional Gossip Collectors In Ancient Rome?

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Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – In the past, many unusual professions were well-paid, but some of these jobs were not respectable.

Delatores - Who Were The Professional Gossip Collectors In Ancient Rome?

In ancient Rome, some people worked as delatores. They were professional informants paid to collect gossip about the city’s inhabitants. Delatores provided the prosecutors with the needed information that was later used in a trial.

“In the administration of Roman law, there was no public officer corresponding to a modern attorney-general. The prosecution of offenses against public law was left to private citizens.

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