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    Aerarium, from aes ("bronze, money") + -ārium ("place for"), was the name given in Ancient Rome to the public treasury, and in a secondary sense to the...
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    Chlorion aerarium, commonly known as the steel-blue cricket hunter, is a species of thread-waisted wasps in the family Sphecidae. It is similar in shape...
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  • The aerarium militare was the military treasury of Imperial Rome. It was instituted by Augustus, the first Roman emperor, as a "permanent revenue source"...
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    estate tax and from an auction tax went towards the veterans' pension fund (aerarium militare). Low taxes helped the Roman aristocracy increase their wealth...
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    currency issued in 16 BC, after he donated vast amounts of money to the aerarium Saturni, the public treasury. According to historian H. H. Scullard, however...
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    Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum housed the state treasury and archives (aerarium) of the Roman Republic and the early Roman Empire. The planet Saturn and...
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    rejected. The normal main duty of the urban quaestors was to handle the aerarium (the public treasury). This involved control and management of the gold...
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  • reign. Tax revenues went into a fund to pay military retirement benefits (aerarium militare), along with those from a new sales tax (centesima rerum venalium)...
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    Maecianus was recalled, made senator, and appointed prefect of the treasury (aerarium Saturni). He was made consul soon after. Fronto's son-in-law, Gaius Aufidius...
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    good were of no value to the state and might as well be abandoned. The aerarium (state treasury) was supervised by members of the government rising in...
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    continued to be associated with wealth. His temple housed the treasury, the aerarium, where the Roman Republic's reserves of gold and silver were stored. The...
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    the Wesergton Sphecidae family of wasps. Listed alphabetically. Chlorion aerarium Patton, 1879 – Steel-blue Cricket Hunter Wasp, Aphid Wasp Chlorion boharti...
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    similar in shape and colour to the steel-blue cricket hunter (Chlorion aerarium). Like other types of wasps, males do not have an ovipositor, and therefore...
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    aevitates, soboles, familias pecuniasque censento: urbis templa, vias, aquas, aerarium, vectigalia tuento: populique partes in tribus distribunto: exin pecunias...
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    public buildings and were attached especially to the public treasury (aerarium). Most performed general, basic tasks as servants to the College of Pontiffs...
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  • the people, grants of land or money to army veterans, subsidies to the aerarium (treasury), building of temples, religious offerings, and expenditures...
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  • two lictors while in office and on station. After the creation of the aerarium militare in AD 6, the three ex-praetors administering it were each granted...
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    obtained the sinecure of scriba quaestorius, a civil service position at the aerarium or Treasury, profitable enough to be purchased even by members of the ordo...
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  • territory between senatorial provinces, whose tributes ended up in the aerarium (the already existing state's chest), and imperial provinces, whose incomes...
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    Forum. Sulla used proscription to restore the depleted Roman Treasury (Aerarium), which had been drained by costly civil and foreign wars in the preceding...
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  • properties and collected the rents, of which most were deposited in the Aerarium, i. e., the treasury of the public funds of the State, and some in the...
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    Caesaris and the aerarium militare. The fiscus Caesaris replaced the aerarium Saturni, and thus became the principal treasury in Rome. The aerarium militare was...
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    Roman legion and had been hidden for safekeeping in the rafters of the aerarium (treasury). However, more recent archaeologists have suggested that the...
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    imperial army (both legionaries and auxiliaries) with the creation of an aerarium militare. With reference to the auxiliary troops Augustus offered them...
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    on power by reversing the prior tax policy beginning with funding the aerarium militare with 170 million sesterces of his own money. The text was completed...
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    the building, Filippo Coarelli has stated that a particular annex of the Aerarium Saturni was constructed specifically to house metal ingots and minted Republican...
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    Elamite language name the treasurer as ganzabara The ancient Roman word aerarium signified the treasury of the Senate; fiscus indicated the imperial treasury...
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    celebrated on 19 December. The Temple of Saturn housed the state treasury (aerarium Saturni) and was the administrative headquarters of the quaestors, the...
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    tax on inheritances and 1% on auction-sales, to be paid into a dedicated aerarium militare (military treasury). However, veterans continued to be offered...
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    transcribed into a document and deposited in the public treasury, the Aerarium. They were given this power because the consuls, who had held this power...
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