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See also:AERARII (from See also:Lat. aes, in its subsidiary sense of " See also:poll-tax ") , originally a class of See also:Roman citizens not included in the See also:thirty tribes of Servius Tullius, and subject to a See also:poll-tax arbitrarily fixed by the See also:censor . They were (1) the inhabitants of conquered towns which had been deprived of See also:local self-See also:government, who possessed the See also:jus conubii and jus commercii, but no See also:political rights; See also:Caere is said to have been the first example of this (353 B.c.); hence the expression " in tabulas Caeritum referre " came to mean " to degrade to the status of an aerarius": (2) full citizens subjected to See also:civil degradation (infamia) as the result of following certain professions (e.g. acting), of dishonour-able acts in private See also:life (e.g. See also:bigamy) or of conviction for certain crimes; (3) persons branded by the censor . Those who were thus excluded from the tribes and centuries had no See also:vote, were in-capable of filling Roman magistracies and could not serve in the See also:army . According to See also:Mommsen, the See also:aerarii were originally the non-assidui (non-holders of See also:land), excluded from the tribes, the See also:comitia and the army . By a reform of the censor Appius See also:Claudius in 312 B.C. these non-assidui were admitted into the tribes, and the aerarii as such disappeared . But in 304, See also:Fabius Rullianus limited them to the four See also:city tribes, and from that See also:time the See also:term meant a See also:man degraded from a higher (See also:country) to a See also:lower (city) tribe, but not deprived of the right of voting or of serving in the army . The expressions " tribu movere " and " See also:aerarium facere," regarded by Mommsen as identical in meaning (" to degrade from a higher tribe to a lower "), are explained by A . H . J . Greenidge—the first as relegation from a higher to a lower tribe or See also:total exclusion from the tribes, the second as exclusion from the centuries . Other views of the See also:original aerarii are that they were:—artisans and freedmen (See also:Niebuhr) ; inhabitants of towns See also:united with See also:Rome by a See also:hospitium publicum, who had become domiciled on Roman territory (See also:Lange); only a class of degraded citizens, including neither the cives sine suffragio nor the artisans (See also:Madvig); identical with the capite censi of the Servian constitution (Belot, Greenidge) . See A .
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