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exactio

exactio · f

A driving out

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Where it lives

Griphus Ternarii numeri 1 · 9.35/10k
De Oratione 2 · 4.46/10k
Pro Q. Roscio Comoedo 1 · 2.1/10k
De Vita Iulii Agricolae 1 · 1.48/10k
De Architectura 4 · 0.69/10k
Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
De Domo Sua Ad Pontifices 1 · 0.66/10k
De Carnis Resurrectione 1 · 0.44/10k
Historiae 2 · 0.39/10k
Adversus Marcionem 3 · 0.36/10k
De Beneficiis 1 · 0.22/10k
De Oratore 1 · 0.17/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

exactĭo — Lewis & Short

exactĭo, ōnis, f.exigo. *

I A driving out, expelling: (regum), Cic. de Or. 1, 9, 37 (perh. only on account of the preceding exactis regibus).—

II A demanding, exacting, requisition.

A In gen.: in exhibendis operariis, Lact. Mort. Pers. 7, 8: quotidiana, operis, Col. 11, 1, 26.—Hence, the supervision, conduct of a public work; cf. exactor, II. A.: operum publicorum, Cic. Dom. 20, 51.—Far more freq.,

B In partic., a calling in, collecting of debts, Cic. Att. 5, 1; id. Leg. 2, 20, 51; Liv. 38, 38; Dig. 42, 8, 24: vectigalium, Vulg. 2 Macc. 4, 28 et saep.—

2 Transf., a tax, tribute, impost: acerbissima capitum atque ostiorum, poll and hearth tax, Cic. Fam. 3, 8, 5: publicae, Asin. Pol. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 32; cf. illicitae, Tac. A. 13, 51; and: exactionum coactor (pater Horatii), Suet. Vita Hor.—

III A finishing, completion, Vitr. 3, 1; 6, 11; Aus. Idyll. 11, 5.

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