Negotiatōres
（πραγματευόμενοι). Provincial citizens who lent money on interest and bought grain on speculation (B. G. vii. 3). Transactions of the former sort were, however, their principal occupation, so that negotiator meant, as a rule, the same thing in the provinces as argentarius or fenerator at Rome. Senators were not allowed to be negotiatores, so that, like the publicani, these were of the equestrian order. See the monograph by Ernesti, De Negotiatoribus in his Opuscula Philologica; Marquardt, Staatsverwaltung, vol. i. p. 542 (2d ed.); and the articles Fenus; Publicani; Trapezitae.