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fiscus

basket, money-bag

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Where it lives

Divus Vespasianus 3 · 9.38/10k
Antoninus Geta 1 · 8.13/10k
Opilius Macrinus 2 · 8.03/10k
De vita Hadriani 4 · 7.8/10k
Helvius Pertinax 2 · 7.69/10k
Cento Nuptialis 1 · 7.33/10k
Antoninus Caracallus 1 · 4.9/10k
Parentalia 1 · 3.85/10k
Divus Aurelianus 3 · 3.84/10k
Marcus Antoninus Philosophus 2 · 3.64/10k
Divus Claudius 2 · 3.13/10k
Domitianus 1 · 2.91/10k

Densest 12 of 34 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. fiscus — de Vaan

fiscus 'basket, money-bag' [m, o] (LuciL+) Derivatives: fiscella 'small basket' (Cato+), fiscina 'basket of rush, wickerwork' (Naev.+), Theoretically, a derivation *fid-sko- from findd 'to cleave' is envisageable, but gratuitous, as is the connection with fidelia 'large pot' (P1.+). No etymology. BibL: WH I: 506, EM 237, IEW 153. i — [de Vaan, s.v. fiscus, p. 237]

2. fiscus — Lewis & Short

fiscus, i, m.,

I a basket or frail woven of slender twigs, rushes, etc. (like fiscina, fiscella, q. v.); used,

I For olives in the oilpress, Col. 12, 52, 22; 54, 2.—Far more freq.,

II 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.—

B In partic.

1 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. —

2 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.

In the wild

fisco Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 7.28.p1
fisci Historia Augusta, Alexander Severus 43
fisci Historia Augusta, Alexander Severus 16
fisci Historia Augusta, De vita Hadriani 20
fiscique Suetonius, Divus Vespasianus 16.3.p2
fiscis Seneca, Ad Lucilium Epistulae Morales 9.76.13

6 of 72 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. fiscus (scan p. 237; entry #582).

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