according to certain presumptive indications, e. g.
the size of the land occupied, the number of doorways,
the number of head of children and slaves (-exactio
capitum atque ostiorum-, Cicero, Ad Fam. iii. 8, 5,
with reference to Cilicia; —phoros epi
tei gei kai tois somasin—, Appian.
Pun. 135, with reference to Africa). In accordance
with this regulation the magistrates of each community
under the superintendence of the Roman governor (Cic.
ad Q. Fr. i. 1, 8; SC. de Asclep. 22, 23) settled who
were liable to the tax, and what was to be paid by
each tributary ( -imperata- —epikephalia—,
Cic. ad Att. v. 16); if any one did not pay this in
proper time, his tax-debt was sold just as in Rome,
i. e. it was handed over to a contractor with an adjudication
to collect it (-venditio tributorum-, Cic. Ad
Fam. iii. 8, 5; —onas— -omnium
venditas-, Cic. ad Att. v. 16). The produce of
these taxes flowed into the coffers of the leading
communities—the Jews, for instance, had
to send their corn to Sidon—and from these
coffers the fixed amount in money was then conveyed
to Rome. These taxes also were consequently
raised indirectly, and the intermediate agent either
retained, according to circumstances, a part of the
produce of the taxes for himself, or advanced it from
his own substance; the distinction between this mode
of raising and the other by means of the -publicani-
lay merely in the circumstance, that in the former
the public authorities of the contributors, in the
latter Roman private contractors, constituted the
intermediate agency.
10. IV. III. Jury Courts
11. III. VII. Administration of Spain
12. IV. X. Regulation of the Finances
13. For example, in Judaea the town of Joppa
paid 26,075 -modii-of corn, the other Jews the tenth
sheaf, to the native princes; to which fell to be
added the temple-tribute and the Sidonian payment
destined for the Romans. In Sicily too, in addition
to the Roman tenth, a very considerable local taxation
was raised from property.
14. IV. VI. The New Military Organization
15. IV. II. Vote by Ballot
16. III. VII. Liguria
17. IV. V. Province of Narbo
18. IV. V. In Illyria
19. IV. I. Province of Macedonia
20. III. XI. Italian Subjects, iii.
XII. Roman Wealth
21. IV. V. Taurisci
22. III. IV. Pressure of the War
23. IV. VII. Outbreak of the Mithradatic
War
24. IV. IX. Preparations on Either
Side
25. III. XII. The Management of Land
and of Capital
26. IV. V. Conflicts with the Ligurians.
With this may be connected the remark of the Roman
agriculturist, Saserna, who lived after Cato and before
Varro (ap. Colum. i. 1, 5), that the culture of
the vine and olive was constantly moving farther to
the north.—The decree of the senate as
to the translation of the treatise of Mago (iv.
II. The Italian Farmers) belongs also to this
class of measures.