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publicani

publicani is a Latin form of publicanus, meaning “tax collector, contractor for public revenue”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective or vocative plural masculine adjective or genitive singular neuter adjective or genitive singular masculine adjective.

Found 33 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Civili 2.18: … a iniungebat praesidiaque eo deducebat et iudicia in privatos reddebat qui verba atque orationem adversus rem publicani habuissent: eorum bona in publicum addicebat. Provinciam omnem in sua et Pompei verba iusiurandum adigebat. C …

All forms of publicanus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.