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Latin word publicanus, meaning a private citizen commissioned to collect taxes for the Roman government and empowered to collect more than the tax from the people and keep the balance.
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The Roman '' publicanus '' was a public contractor and tax-gatherer rather than a publican in the modern sense, and other Bible translations, for example the New International Version, call him a tax collector rather than a publican. parable of The Pharisee and the Publican is a parable of Jesus recounted in the
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Publican, in the Gospels, is derived from the publicanus of the Vulgate, and signifies a member or employee of the Roman financial companies who farmed the taxes.
Quote Of The Day 2009
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Prosecution in Cicero's opinion was a waste of his talents, for the (highly illegal) fees were always far less than the inducements offered by some sweating ex-governor or publicanus in danger of losing everything.
Fortune's Favorites McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1993
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He was married, she learned — to one Cuspia, daughter of a publicanus, and his sister was married to Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, the younger brother of the Pontifex Maximus; dowering his sister had been a staggering expense, one he had only managed to achieve by marrying his Cuspia, whose father was enormously wealthy.
The Grass Crown McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1991
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Publican, in the Gospels, is derived from the publicanus of the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Zachaeus publicanus in gratiam receptus a Domino clamat in Evangelio: Ecce, dimidium bonorum meorum,
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Sed et filius ille concoctor, et publicanus ille in Evangelio, cum
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Sed et filius ille concoctor, et publicanus ille in Evangelio, cum Pharisaeo collatus, praeeunt nobis formulis adcommodatissimis peccata nostra Deo confitendi.
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[149] It might happen that the interest of the _negotiator_ was opposed to that of the _publicanus_.
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate 1885
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