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vectigal

a toll

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Where it lives

De Lege Agraria 24 · 17.41/10k
De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites 10 · 15/10k
Paradoxa stoicorum ad M. Brutum 4 · 9.29/10k
Alexander Severus 6 · 5.61/10k
Alcibiades 1 · 4.95/10k
Hannibal 1 · 4.89/10k
Letters to and from Quintus 8 · 4.36/10k
De Provinciis Consularibus In Senatu 2 · 3.9/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklürt von M. Weissenborn, book 45 5 · 3.8/10k
Divus Vespasianus 1 · 3.13/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 35-38 - 38 5 · 2.95/10k
Ab urbe condita libri, erklärt von M. Weissenborn, books 33-34 - 34 4 · 2.67/10k

Densest 12 of 72 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. vectīgal — Lewis & Short

vectīgal, ālis (

I gen. plur. vectigaliorum, Suet. Aug. 101; id. Calig. 16: vectigalium, id. Tib. 49), n. vectus, from veho, a toll, tax, impost paid to the State (cf.: tributum, census, stipendium).

I Lit.: in vectigalibus non solum adventus mali, sed etiam metus ipse affert calamitatem ... ita neque ex portu neque ex decumis neque ex scripturā vectigal conservari potest, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 6, 15; C. Gracch. ap. Gell 11, 10, 3; Caes. B C 1, 35; id. B. G. 1, 18; 1, 36: pensitare, Cic. Imp Pomp. 6, 16: imponere agro, id. Agr. 2, 21, 55 sq.: levare agrum vectigali, id. Brut. 36, 136.—

B Esp., an honorarium or contribution paid to a magistrate: praetorium, Cic. Att. 5, 21, 11: aedilicium, the contribution of a province to the games instituted by an œdile, id. Q. Fr, 1, 1, 9, § 26.—

II Transf, of private affairs, revenue, rents, income, etc.: vectigalia urbana rusticis (anteponantur), Cic. Off. 2, 25, 88; cf.: ex meo tenui vectigali, id. Par. 6, 3, 49; Hor. C. 3, 16, 40; Col. praef. § 27; Plin. 9, 54, 79, § 168; 26, 3, 8, § 15; Plin. Ep. 7, 18, 2 sq.—Prov.: magnum vectigal est Parsimonia, Cic. Par. 6, 3, 49.

2. vectigal — Walde–Hofmann

vectigal, -älis n. „die Abgaben an den Staat, Gefälle, Steuern* (seit Cato; in der Sent. Minuc. is ager vectigal nei siet = *vectigäls mit o.-u, Synkope, s. Niedermann Mnemos. 3, 1936, 269), vectigalis, -e „als Abgabe bezahlt“ (sc. pecunia) (seit Cic., vectigaliarius, -a, -um ds. Firm): Subst. Ntr. von vecizgälis „zu den Abgaben an den Staat gehörig“: *vectis „Abfuhr“ (zu vehö) 4- *-igos für *-agos (zu agö) (Vanitek … — [Walde–Hofmann, s.v. vectigal, p. 1649]

In the wild

vectigalibus Livy, Ab urbe condita libri, erklürt von M. Weissenborn, book 45 p39
vectigal Cicero, De Lege Agraria 1.21
vectigal Cicero, Letters to Atticus 9.13.4
vectigalibus Historia Augusta, Alexander Severus 44
vectigal Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 12.1.p2
vectigalis Livy, Ab urbe condita 3.38.16.11

6 of 255 attestations shown.

Where it came from

Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. vectigal (scan p. 1649; entry #3164).

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