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    Aerarium, from aes ("bronze, money") + -ārium ("place for"), was the name given in Ancient Rome to the public treasury, and in a secondary sense to the...
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  • The aerarium militare was the military treasury of Imperial Rome. It was instituted by Augustus, the first Roman emperor, as a "permanent revenue source"...
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    Chlorion aerarium, commonly known as the steel-blue cricket hunter, is a species of thread-waisted wasps in the family Sphecidae. It is similar in shape...
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    rejected. The normal main duty of the urban quaestors was to handle the aerarium (the public treasury). This involved control and management of the gold...
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    continued to be associated with wealth. His temple housed the treasury, the aerarium, where the Roman Republic's reserves of gold and silver were stored. The...
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    Temple of Saturn in the Roman Forum housed the state treasury and archives (aerarium) of the Roman Republic and the early Roman Empire. The planet Saturn and...
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    estate tax and from an auction tax went towards the veterans' pension fund (aerarium militare). Low taxes helped the Roman aristocracy increase their wealth...
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  • territory between senatorial provinces, whose tributes ended up in the aerarium (the already existing state's chest), and imperial provinces, whose incomes...
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    currency issued in 16 BC, after he donated vast amounts of money to the aerarium Saturni, the public treasury. According to historian H. H. Scullard, however...
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    Roman legion and had been hidden for safekeeping in the rafters of the aerarium (treasury). However, more recent archaeologists have suggested that the...
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