Tax-farmers
group · 2 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
tax-farmers · farmers of taxes · the quaestor · their collectors
in the texts
Against Timocrates
Public-revenue contractors and collectors excluded from Timocrates’ lenient rule.
But in the case of tax-farmers, their sureties, and their collectors, and of the lessees of leasable revenues and their sureties, the State may exact payment according to the established laws.
but, leaving those names out of the question, we have his own admission that his law is not of universal application, for he added a clause excepting from its operation tax-farmers, lessees, and their sureties.
And there is another thing that you cannot say,— that of all persons punished by imprisonment tax farmers are the greatest offenders and do us the gravest wrong, and that that is why you do not give them the benefit of your law.
Ad Nationes
Roman revenue contractors to whom temple properties and offerings are effectively leased.
every five years you assign them, proscribed among your revenues.