See also:AERARIUM (from See also:Lat. aes, in its derived sense of " See also:money ")
, the name (in full, See also:aerarium stabulum, treasure-See also:house) given in See also:ancient See also:Rome to the public See also:treasury, and in a secondary senseto the public finances
.
The treasury contained the moneys and accounts of the See also:state, and also the See also:standards of the legions; the public See also:laws engraved on See also:brass, the decrees of the See also:senate and other papers and registers of importance
.
These public treasures were deposited in the See also:temple of See also:Saturn, on the eastern slope of the Capitoline See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill, and, during the See also:republic, were in See also:charge of the See also:urban quaestors (see See also:QuAESTOR), under the superintendence and See also:control of the senate
.
This arrangement continued (except for the See also:year 45 B.C., when no quaestors were chosen) until 28 B.C., when See also:Augustus transferred the aerarium to two praefecti See also:aerarii, chosen annually by the senate from ex-praetors; in 23 these were replaced by two praetors (praetores aerarii or ad aerarium), selected by See also:lot during their See also:term of See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office; See also:Claudius in A.D
.
44 restored the quaestors, but nominated by the See also:emperor for three years, for whom See also:Nero in 56 substituted two ex-praetors, under the same conditions
.
In addition to the See also:common treasury, supported by the See also:general taxes and charged with the See also:ordinary See also:expenditure, there was a See also:special reserve fund, also in the temple of Saturn, the aerarium''sanctum (or sanctius), probably originally consisting' of the spoils of See also:war, afterwards maintained chiefly by a 5% tax on the value of all manumitted slaves, this source of See also:revenue being established by a lex Manlia in 357
.
This fund was not to be touched except in cases of extreme See also:necessity (See also:Livy vii
.
16, See also:xxvii. so)
.
Under the emperors the senate continued to have at least the nominal management of the aerarium, while the emperor had a See also:separate See also:exchequer, called fiscus
.
But after a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, as the See also:power of the emperors increased and their See also:jurisdiction extended till the senate existed only in See also:form and name, this distinction virtually ceased
.
Besides creating the fiscus, Augustus also established in A.D
.
6 a military treasury (aerarium militare), containing all moneys raised for and appropriated to the See also:maintenance of the See also:army, including a See also:pension fund for disabled soldiers
.
It was largely endowed by the emperor himself (see Monumentum Ancyranum, iii
.
35) and supported by the proceeds of the tax on public sales and the See also:succession See also:duty
.
Its See also:administration was in the hands of three praefecti aerarii militaris, at first appointed by lot, but afterwards by the emperor, from senators of praetorian See also:rank, for three years
.
The later emperors had a separate aerarium privatum, containing the moneys allotted for their own use, distinct from the fiscus, which they administered in the interests of the See also:empire
.
The tribuni aerarii have been the subject of much discussion
.
They are supposed by some to be identical with the curatores tribuum, and to have been the officials who, under the Servian organization, levied the war-tax (tributum) in the tribes and the See also:poll-tax on the aerarii (q.v.)
.
They also acted as paymasters of the See also:equites and of the soldiers on service in each tribe
.
By the lex See also:Aurelia (70 B.C.) the See also:list of judices was composed, in addition to senators and equites, of tribuni aerarii
.
Whether these were the successors of the above, or a new See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order closely connected with the equites, or even the same as the latter, is uncertain
.
According to See also:Mommsen, they were persons who possessed the equestrian See also:census, but no public See also:horse
.
They were removed from the list of judices by See also:Caesar, but replaced by Augustus
.
According to See also:Madvig, the See also:original tribuni aerarii were not officials at all, but private individuals of considerable means, quite distinct from the curatores tribuum, who undertook certain See also:financial See also:work connected with their own tribes
.
Then, as in the See also:case of the equites, the term was subsequently extended to include all those who possessed the See also:property qualification that would have entitled them to serve. as tribuni aerarii
.
See See also:Tacitus, See also:Annals, xiii
.
29, with See also:Furneaux's notes; O
.
Hirschfeld, " Das Aerarium militare in der romischen Kaiserzeit," in See also:Fleckeisen's Jahrbuch, vol. xcvii
.
(1868); S
.
Herrlich, De Aerario et Fist() Romanorum (See also:Berlin, 1872) ; and the usual handbooks and dictionaries of antiquities
.
On the tribuni aerarii see E
.
Belot, Hist. See also:des chevaliers romains, ii. p
.
276; J
.
N
.
Madvig, Opuscula Academica, ii. p
.
242; J
.
B
.
Mispoulet, See also:Les Institutions politiques des Romains (1883), ii. p
.
208; Mommsen, Romisches Staatsrecht, iii. p
.
189; A
.
S
.
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- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
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.
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