publicani造句

• The publicani had overextended themselves and fell into debt.
• Since the publicani were mostly equites Caesar gained the favour of this influential group.
• In England in the late 12th century there existed a religious sect called the " publicani ".
• His attempts to reform the rapacious Roman administration in Asia made him increasingly unpopular among the powerful publicani back in Rome.
• In particular, tax farming companies ( " publicani " ) were almost all in the hands of equites.
• In addition to this force, there were publicani who would bid for the right to collect taxes in each region.
• During the period of the Roman Republic tax collection was tendered to private companies owned by the publicani ( singular publicanus ).
• The provincial governors whose duty it was to curb illegal demands were often bribed into acquiescence by the " publicani ".
• The earliest form of a company which issued " public shares " was the " publicani " during the Roman Republic.
• Caesar proposed a law to relive the publicani from a third of their debt to the treasury ( see previous section for details about the publicani ).
• Caesar proposed a law to relive the publicani from a third of their debt to the treasury ( see previous section for details about the publicani ).
• Equestrians became especially prominent in tax farming and, by 100 BC, owned virtually all tax-farming companies ( " publicani " ).
• It is likely that Crassus also saw the alliance with Pompey to ensure Caesar s consulship as a means to pass a measure to relieve publicani in debt.
• Gaius Marius, a lieutenant of Metellus, saw an opportunity to usurp his commander and fed rumors of incompetence and delay to the publicani ( tax gatherers ) in the region.
• During the imperial era, tax collectors were generally paid an agreed percentage of the amount collected . " Equites publicani " became prominent in banking activities such as money-lending and money-changing.
• This system frequently resulted in extortion from the common people of the provinces, as unscrupulous " publicani " often sought to maximise their profit by demanding a much higher rates of tax than originally set by the government.
• In Plutarch's view, the province welcomed the new regime, because it had been oppressed by Rome's tax collectors and contractors ( " publicani " ) and by the " rapacity and insolence " of the soldiers stationed there.
• This pernicious system was terminated by the first Roman emperor, Augustus ( sole rule 30 BC-14 AD ), who transferred responsibility for tax collection from the " publicani " to provincial local authorities ( " civitates peregrinae " ).
• The system also led to political conflict between " equites publicani " and the majority of their fellow-equites, especially senators, who as big landowners wanted to minimise the tax on land outside Italy ( " tributum solis " ), which was the main source of state revenue.
• Arnensis Marcellus "  ( Arnensis referencing his voting tribe ) listed in the inscription of Oropos in Greece as a member of the " consilium " ( Senate committee ) which, in 73 BC, judged against the claims of Rome's " publicani " to collect taxes in Oropos.