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|lshtext=<b>fiscus</b>: i, m.,<br /><b>I</b> a [[basket]] or [[frail]] [[woven]] of [[slender]] twigs, rushes, etc. ([[like]] [[fiscina]], [[fiscella]], q. v.); used,<br /><b>I</b> For olives in the oilpress, Col. 12, 52, 22; 54, 2.—Far [[more]] freq.,<br /><b>II</b> For [[keeping]] [[money]] in, a [[money]]-[[basket]], or, as we [[say]], a [[money]]-[[bag]], [[purse]] (cf. aerarium): fiscos [[complures]] cum [[pecunia]] Siciliensi a quodam senatore ad equitem Romanum esse translatos, Cic. Verr. 1, 8, 22: [[mulus]] ferebat fiscos cum [[pecunia]], Phaedr. 2, 7, 2; Suet. Claud. 18.—Poet.: aerata [[multus]] in [[arca]] Fiscus, i. e. [[much]] [[money]], Juv. 14, 259.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The [[public]] [[chest]], [[state]] [[treasury]], [[public]] revenues: quaternos HS, quos mihi [[senatus]] decrevit et ex aerario dedit, ego habebo et in cistam transferam de fisco, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 85, § 197: qui fiscum sustulit, id. ib. 79, § 183: de fisco [[quid]] egerit [[Scipio]], quaeram, id. Q. Fr. 3, 4, 5 Manut.; Eutr. 2, 16; Vulg. 1 Esdr. 7, 20. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In the times of the emperors, the [[imperial]] [[treasury]], [[imperial]] revenues, [[emperor]]'s [[privy]] [[purse]] (opp. aerarium, the [[public]] [[chest]] or [[treasury]]): [[quantum]] pecuniae in aerario et fiscis et vectigalibus residuis, Suet. Aug. 101; 40; id. Claud. 28; id. Ner. 32; Sen. Ben. 7, 6: fisci de imperatore rapti, Tac. A. 1, 37: bona in fiscum cogere, id. ib. 6, 2; Dig. 39, 4, 9 fin.: [[fortasse]] non [[eadem]] severitate fiscum [[quam]] aerarium cohibes, Plin. [[Pan]]. 36 et saep.: Judaicus, the [[tax]] paid by the Jews [[into]] the [[imperial]] [[treasury]], Suet. Dom. 12: [[quidquid]] conspicuum pulchrumque est aequore toto res fisci est, Juv. 4, 55.

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