MASTER (Magister) was a title frequent amongst the Romans. They had their master of the people, magister populi, who was the dictator; the master of the cavalry, magister equitum, who held the second post in an army after the dictator; and there were also masters of the infantry, magistri peditum, and a master of the census, magister census, who had nothing of the charge of a censor, or sub-censor, as the name seems to intimate, but was the same with the propositus frumentariorum.