levy (v.) Copy link Outline I. To raise troopsII. To impose a tax1. exĭgo, 32. impĕro, 1 (to order to furnish • levy (v.): I. To raise troops: scrībo, etc.: v. to enlist. II. To impose a tax: 1. exĭgo, 3: v. to exact. 2. impĕro, 1 (to order to furnish: with dat. of person and acc. of thing): he l.s the utmost possible number of troops of the whole province, toti provinciae quam maximum militum numerum imperat, Caes. B. G. 1, 7: so, imp. civitatibus obsides, id. 7, 64. See also to impose.
LEVY Copy link • LEVY 1. s. delectus; conquisitio militum (by force). A strict levy is enjoined, acer delectus denunciatur: by a very strict levy to raise as many as thirty thousand men, intentissima conquisitione, ad triginta millia peditum conficere. 2. v. To raise troops, etc., delectum habere; milites legere, scribere, conscribere; milites contrahere (by force); mercede conducere milites; milites conquirere or conquirere et comparare; militum conquisitionem habere (for pay). To levy an army, copias, exercitum mercede conducere; copias, exercitum colligere, conficere, comparare (to gather, bring together): to levy corn, etc., frumentum, commeatum imperare: to 1evy a supply of provisions, frumenti vecturas imperare, describere (in a country) alicui: to levy contributions (in the states), civitatibus pecuniarum summas imperare; tributa indicere, imperare. To tax proportionately, in omnes civitates pro portione pecunias describere.