Note 27 — BOOK V. CONCERNING BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS.
S. P. (Samuel Parsons) Scott translation
Among the clients owing services to a patron, were the buccelarii, who derived their appellation from the buccela, or ration, furnished them. They may be designated “bailiffs,” as their duties resembled, in many respects, those of the Spanish alguazil. They formed part of the armed retinue of the patron, accompanied him to war, and guarded his property in times of revolution and disorder.—[Ed.]