AUCTOR

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  AUCTOR. Among the Romans the seller was called auctor; and public, sales
  were made by fixing a spear in the forum, and a person who acted as crier
  stood by the spear the catalogue of the goods to be sold was made in tables
  called auctionariae.