Aerartribun
Aerarium tribunes (Latin tribuni aerarii ) were originally plebeian officials in the Roman Republic who were assigned to the quaestor and responsible for paying out the pay ( stipendium ) to soldiers of their tribus from the state treasury, the aerarium . Perhaps they were also entrusted with the collection of the tax receipts used to finance wages, the tributum .
In the late republic, when after 167 BC Chr. Roman citizens no tributum paid more that Aerartribunen formed a census class just below the Roman knights , were thus relatively wealthy. After the reform of the jury by the lex Aurelia iudiciaria in 70 BC. After senators and knights , the aerart tribunes were the third class from which the jury was taken. The Aero tribunes lost this function under Gaius Iulius Caesar and no longer appear in the sources.
literature
- Helmuth Vretska : Tribunus 1. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 5, Stuttgart 1975, Col. 946 f.