A variant or Latin form of agoranome; a marketplace official in ancient Greece or Rome.
Greek agora 'marketplace' + nomos 'law,' with the '-us' Latin masculine nominative ending. This represents the same role as agoranome but in formal Latin nomenclature.
The agoranomus represented one of history's earliest examples of government consumer protection—thousands of years before modern regulatory agencies, these officials were making sure your bread loaf weighed what the baker claimed!
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