exactor
Ἐς δὲ τὰ ἔσχατα νουσήματα αἱ ἔσχαται θεραπεῖαι ἐς ἀκριβείην, κράτισται → But for extreme illnesses, extreme remedies, applied with severe exactitude, are the best (Hippocrates, Aphorism 6)
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
exactor: ōris, m. id.; cf. also exactio. *
I A driver-out, expeller: regum (Junii Valeriique), Liv. 9, 17, 11.—
II A demander, exactor (cf.: redemptor, manceps, magister; also: publicanus, portitor).
A In gen.: operis, i. e. an overseer, superintendent, enforcer of any kind of labor, Col. 3, 13, 10; cf. Liv. 45, 37; so, assiduus studiorum, Quint. 1, 3, 14; cf.: asper recte loquendi, id. 1, 7, 34: molestissimus sermonis Latini, Suet. Gramm. 22: supplicii, an executioner, Liv. 2, 5; cf. Tac. A. 11, 37, and 3, 14 fin.; cf. Vulg. Luc. 12, 58.—
B In partic., a collector of taxes, a tax gatherer, * Caes. B. C. 3, 32, 4; Liv. 28, 25, 9; Firm. 4, 3 al.; Dig. 50, 4, 18, § 8; or of other debts due the state, ib. 22, 1, 33. (Not in Cic.; but cf. exactio.)>
