Cancelli in the church of Kreuzlingen, Switzerland.
This led to the occupation of cancellarius, which originally signified a porter who stood at the latticed or grated door of the emperor's palace. According to the Historia Augusta, the emperor Carinus (reigned 283-285) gave great dissatisfaction by promoting one of these cancellarii to city prefect, although the veracity of this account is disputed.[a]
Other cancellarii were legal scribes or secretaries who sat within the lattice-work which protected the tribunals of the judges from the crowd. The chief scribe in Constantinople was eventually invested with judicial power, and from this office came the modern "chancellor".[1]
^A large amount of the Historia Augusta is recognised by historians to be inaccurate or false (see Historia Augusta § Historical value). The lack of any recorded mention of a cancellarius prior to the fifth century led the historian Otto Seeck to believe that the Historia Augusta was a fifth-century forgery.[3]
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^ abSmith, William, ed. (1875). "Cancelli". A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. London: John Murray. p. 236. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
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