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Roman rulers used the cursus publicus to send messages. This was a state-supervised courier and transportation service. It transported messages, public officials, and tax revenues. It was an infrastructure of thousands of stations (stationes) along the main roads of the empire which supplied horses, transport animals (mules and donkeys) oxen for pulling carts, carts, fodder and food and accommodation. To use the services of the cursus publicus you needed a licence (diploma) issued by the emperor. The staging stations were the mutationes which were privately-run stations which serviced vehicles and animals and had wheelwrights, cartwrights, and veterinarian, and the mutationes (singular mansio), government-run overnight accommodation for state messengers and officals under the superintendence of an officer called mansionarius.

State messengers were usually soldiers who acted as dispatch riders. Private individuals hired their own messengers. Private messengers stayed the night in private establishments called tebernae (singular taberna). For greater speed, horses were changed frequently.

It has been estimated that these staging post were on average 12.4 km (7.7 mi) apart. It has also been estimated that messengers covered about 80 km (50 miles) per day.

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