1. stător, ōris, m. [sto], a magistrate’s attendant, servant, messenger, orderly-man (since Augustus there were centuriae statorum Augusti): statores mittere, Cic. Fam. 2, 19, 2; Planc. ib. 10, 21, 2; Dig. 4, 6, 10; 1, 16, 4; Inscr. Orell. 2780; 3422; 3524; cf. Kellerm. Vigil. App. 40; 199 sq.; Jahn, Spec. Epigr. p. 28, n. 1; p. 49.