Augustus, but their publication was forbidden. A young senator (Latin: abactis senatus) was chosen to draw up these acta, which were kept in the imperial
Sura, Trajan's all-powerful friend and kingmaker. His next post was as abactis senatus, keeping the Senate's records. During the First Dacian War, Hadrian
adjutant Commentariensis was the keeper of "commentaries", an official diary Abactis was the keeper of records, the archivist Numerarius ("accountant") seems
official diary). An adiutor (adjutant; literally "helper", an assistant). An abactis ("acts-keeper", archivist). A cura epistolarum ("curator of correspondence")