PROXENETAE

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

  PROXENETAE, civil law. Among the Romans these were persons whose functions 
  somewhat resembled the brokers of modern commercial nations. Dig. 50, 14, 3; 
  Domat, 1. 1, t. 17, Sec. 1, art. 1.