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Publicani as corporations[edit]

If I understand what I'm reading, there were the publicani, or societates publicanorum, which were corporations, in addition to the individual publicans; see J.A. Crook, Law and Life of Rome (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press), 235 ff. The wording of the article could be clearer on this point, but I don't know enough about the corporations to update it. modify 18:40, 7 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Inappropriate comma?[edit]

"The publicans were usually of the class of equites, or capitalists."

"Capitalist" is a pretty poor description of the equites, who were, more properly, nobles or aristocrats. Is this phrase supposed to lack the comma and read: "The publicans were usually of the class of equites or [were] capitalists"?

Title[edit]

Might not this page be better titled Publicanus - which is, after all, the original language term and avoids the bizarre conflict with the more typical use of the word "Publican" in English? 146.200.253.104 (talk) 21:23, 7 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Excellent[edit]

What a truly excellent article. If I knew how, I would recommend it for 'article of the day'. DlronW (talk) 17:47, 6 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Move to publicani[edit]

Oxford Classical Dictionary has this topic under publicani, which is also – in my reading – the common name. Ifly6 (talk) 18:54, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Possible history again? America, don't fall![edit]

This is haunting.

Please do not fail like Rome, please U.S.A. 172.56.81.115 (talk) 20:24, 4 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

BC?[edit]

Is BCE standard for Wikipedia? I noted that this article uses BC and it struck me as odd. 211.29.235.230 (talk) 19:19, 17 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]