By John Richardson
Discusses Roman executive in parts below its keep watch over from the 1st Punic warfare as much as two hundred A.D.
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Verres, so Cicero said, confiscated inheritances from rich Sicilians, following complaints from other Sicilians who were associates of Verres himself. In a similar fashion Cicero alleges that the collectors of the Sicilian corn-tithe, many of whom were Sicilians, successfully bribed Verres to sell the rights to the tithe to them - and to ignore their methods of collecting it - by providing him with money and women. THE PUBLICANI But much heavier pressure could b e put o n the governor b y Romans.
He goes on to illustrate this with a story about his own career. As a young man he had been appointed as one of the two financial officers {quaestores) in Sicily, one of whom was based in Syracuse and the second (Cicero in this case) at the other end of the island in the port of Lilybaeum. At the end of his term of office, Cicero returned to Italy, proud of all he had achieved in Sicily and convinced that his quaestorship would be the talk of the town in Rome itself. He landed at the port and sea-side resort of Puteoli, where he met a man who, believing that he had just come from Rome, asked for the latest news.
What is more, the system had certain clear advantages for the Romans. We have seen that the governor's staff was not large, and to have taken on all the work involved in taxation as well would have forced the republic to employ a large number of additional men, skilled in financial matters. They avoided this by using the publicani to do the job for them. There was one other advantage that was perhaps even more important. The stipendium, which the governor's staff collected themselves, was a fixed tax, and would, if properly collected, produce a known amount of money and goods; the taxes collected by the publicani were bound to give a variable revenue.