tax (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. vectīgal, ālis, n. (esp. t. as a source of revenue)2. stīpendium (a fixed t. payable in money)3. trĭbūtum (a stated payment)4. exactio5. indictio (the imposition of a t.)6. censītio7. ŏnus, ŏnĕris, n. (a burden)8. pensio • tax (subs.): 1. vectīgal, ālis, n. (esp. t. as a source of revenue): a fixed t. in money, v. stipendiarium, Cic. Verr. 3, 6, 12: a t. on the market, v. macelli, Plin. 19, 4, 19, § 56: a t. on urinals, v. urinae, Suet. Vesp. 23: to impose a t., v. imponere, Cic. Fontei. 5, 10; indicere, Suet. Calig. 41: to impose a fixed t. on eatables, pro eduliis v. certum statutumque exigere, id. ib. 40: to impose a new t. on the year's produce of salt, v. novum ex salaria annona statuere, Liv. 29, 37: to superintend, to exact, to pay a t., v. exercere, exigere, pensitare, Cic. Manil. 6, 16: to pay a t. for water, v. pro aqua pendere, id. Agr. 3, 2, 9: to revive obsolete t.s, omissa v. revocare, Suet. Vesp. 16: to relieve of a t., vectigali levare, Cic. Brut. 36, 136; liberare, id. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 9, 26: to lease out the t.s, v. locare, id. Agr. 1. 3. 7: to farm the t.s, v. redimere, Caes. B. G. 1, 18: adj. vectīgālis: money paid by way of t., pecunia v., Cic. Verr. 1, 35, 89. 2. stīpendium (a fixed t. payable in money): to impose, receive a t.: to refuse to pay a t., s. imponere, capere; de s. recusare, Caes. B. G. 1, 44, ad init.: to free from t.s, s. liberare, id. B. G. 5, 27. 3. trĭbūtum (a stated payment): to impose a poll-t., in capita singula t. imponere, Caes. B. C. 3, 32: they all pay t.s yearly according to their rating, omnes quotannis ex censu t. conferunt, Cic. Verr. 2, 53, 131: v. tribute. 4. exactio: a very cruel poll and house-t., acerbissima e. capitum atque ostiorum, Cic. Fam. 3, 8, 5: public t.s, publicae e., Asin. Pollio in Cic. Fam. 10, 32, 1: unlawful t.s, e. illicitae, Tac. A. 13, 51. 5. indictio (the imposition of a t.): a temporary t., i. temporaria, Paul. Dig. 33, 2, 28. 6. censītio: to lighten the t.s, c. levare, Spart. Pescenn. Nigr. 7, extr. 7. ŏnus, ŏnĕris, n. (a burden): to lay such heavy t.s on the people, tantum oneris plebi imponere, Cic. Verr. 2, 55, 138: a town subject to very heavy t.s, municipium maximis o. pressum, id. Fam. 13, 7, 2: free from all t.s, ab omni onere immunes, Suet. Claud. 25. 8. pensio: Aur. Vict. Phr.: (i.) T.s named from particular objects: a t. on bachelors, uxorium (sc. aes), Fest.: a t. on doors (i. e. house-t.), ostiarium, Caes. B. C. 3, 32: a t. on imports or exports, portorium, id. B. G. 1, 18: a pedler's t., portorium circumvectionis, Cic. Att. 2, 16, ad fin.: a t. on pillars, columnarium, id. Att. 13, 6, init.: a t. on public pastures, scriptura, id. Fam. 13, 65: a t. paid by Jews into the imperial treasury, fiscus Judaicus, Suet. Dom. 12. (ii.) T.s expressed by the percentage levied: a t. of one-half per cent., ducentesima, Tac. A. 2, 42: a t. of 1 per cent. on things bought and sold, centesima rerum venalium, id. A. 1, 78: a tax of 2 per cent., of 2-1/2 per cent., quinquagesima, quadragesima, id. A. 13, 51: a t. of 5 per cent., vicesima, Cic. Att. 2, 16: a t. of 10 per cent., decima (decuma), v. tithe. a t. of 12-1/2 per cent., octava, Cod. Justin. 4, 61, 7. a t. of 2 denarii, dinumium, Cod. Theod. 14. 27. 2. (iii.) States free from t.s: immunes civitates, Cic. Verr. 3, 40, 92. Join: immunes et liberi, id. ib. 2, 69, 166: to appoint some one to superintend the t.s, aliquem vectigalibus publicis praeponere, Tac. A. 15, 18: to farm the public t.s, conducere publica, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 77: one who farms the t.s, publicanus, Cic. Prov. Cons. 5, 10: v. farm: a t. collected every 5 years, collatio lustralis, Cod. Theod. 13, tit. 1.