antiquity, an officer of Athens, who kept a counterpart of the apodecti, or chief treasurer's accounts, to prevent mistakes, and keep them from being falsified.

Antigraphus is also used, in middle-age writers, for a secretary or chancellor. He is thus called, according to the old glossarists, on account of his writing answers to the letters sent to his master. The antigraphus is sometimes also called archigraphus; and his dignity antigraphia, or archigraphia.

Antigraphus is also used in Hidorus for one of the notes of sentences which is placed with a dot to denote a diversity of sense in translations.

Antigraphus is also applied in ecclesiastical writers to an abbreviator of the papal letters. In which sense the word is used by Pope Gregory the Great in his register. Of late days the office of antigraphus consists in making minutes of bulls from the petitions agreed to by his holiness, and renewing the bulls after engraving.