Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Q, Q, Quinquagesĭma

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Q - Quintīlis Mensis

Quadrigarius , Q. Claudius

Quaestiōnes Naturāles

Quaestiōnes Romānae

Quiētus , Q. Lusius

Quinctilius Varus

Quinctius Cincinnātus

Quinctius Flaminīnus

Quintāna Porta

Quintiliānus , Marcus Fabius

Quintīlis Mensis

Quintillus , M. Aurelius - Quoit

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Quinquagesĭma

sc. pars.

1.

A Roman tax of the fiftieth part, or two per cent. on the value of all slaves who were sold. It was instituted by Augustus (Dio Cass. lv. 31).

2.

A similar tax at Athens (πεντηκοστή) levied on exports and imports. See Pentecosté.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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