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publicanorum

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

Found 38 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.172: … ratias agerent, facturos se si quid imperasset studiose pollicerentur. itaque socii fecerunt vetere instituto publicanorum, non quo istum ullo honore dignum arbitrarentur, sed quod sua interesse putabant se memores gratosque existim …

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.