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- publicans (Gr**** τελώνης telōnēs [singular]; Latin public**** [singular]; publicani [plural]) were public contractors, in whose official capacity they often...
- the publicani during the Roman Republic, although this claim is not shared by all modern scholars. Like modern joint-stock companies, the publicani were...
- often bribed into acquiescence by the publicani. The system also led to political conflict between equites publicani and the majority of their fellow-equites...
- farmers (called publicani) paid the tax revenue to the government in advance and then kept the taxes collected from individuals. The publicani paid the tax...
- notorious publicani were private tax collectors hired by provincial governors to gather taxes exceeding the official rates. These publicani would then...
- "Publicans" or "Poplecans", a name probably deriving from Paulicians (the term "Publicani" would be generally used for any heretic, even a political traitor, through...
- several decades despite its favoured status with Rome. In the 80s BC, Roman publicani illegally levied taxes on the sacred estates of Athena Ilias, and the...
- farmers (called publicani) paid the tax revenue to the government in advance and then kept the taxes collected from individuals. The publicani paid the tax...
- BC, the triumvirate had achieved many of their goals of land reform, publicani debt forgiveness, ratification of Pompeian conquests, etc. With Caesar...
- manpower by the predatory agents of the late Roman state (see frumentarii, publicani). The Panegyric of Maximian, dating to 289 AD and attributed to Claudius...