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Lewis Short
(adjective) : pūblĭcānus, a, um, publicus.
* Of or belonging to the public revenue, or to the farming of the revenue: muliercula, the wife of a farmer-general (with an odious secondary meaning), Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 34, § 78.
* Subst.: pūblĭcānus, i, m.
* A farmer-general of the Roman revenues, usually from the equestrian order (freq. and class.; syn.: manceps, redemptor),Cic. Planc. 9, 23; id. Rab. Post. 2, 3; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 11, § 32; Liv. 43, 16; 25, 3; 39, 44: quod publicanus ejus publici nomine vi ademerit quodve familia publicanorum,Dig. 39, 4, 1, prooem. sqq.; Just. 38, 7, 8.
* In gen., a tax-gatherer, publican, Vulg. Luc. 18, 10.
* Of or belonging to the public revenue, or to the farming of the revenue: muliercula, the wife of a farmer-general (with an odious secondary meaning), Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 34, § 78.
* Subst.: pūblĭcānus, i, m.
* A farmer-general of the Roman revenues, usually from the equestrian order (freq. and class.; syn.: manceps, redemptor),Cic. Planc. 9, 23; id. Rab. Post. 2, 3; id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 11, § 32; Liv. 43, 16; 25, 3; 39, 44: quod publicanus ejus publici nomine vi ademerit quodve familia publicanorum,Dig. 39, 4, 1, prooem. sqq.; Just. 38, 7, 8.
* In gen., a tax-gatherer, publican, Vulg. Luc. 18, 10.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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