publicanorum

Updated: June 24, 2025

We will deal first with the publicani. In a passage of Livy quoted just now it is stated that at the beginning of the Hannibalic war money was advanced to the State by societates publicanorum; Livy also happens to mention that three of these competed for the privilege.

W. Warde (William Warde) Fowler - Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero