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Agrimensor
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Gromatici.
Roman Empire
The agrimensor could mark out the limits of the centuriae, and restore the boundaries where they were confused, but he could not assign without a commission from the emperor. Military persons of various classes are also sometimes mentioned as practising surveying, and settling disputes about boundaries. The lower rank of the professional agrimensor, as contrasted with the finitor of earlier periods, is shown by the fact that in the imperial period there might be a contract with an agrimensor for paying him for his services.