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

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Eicosté

（εἰκοστή). A customs duty of one-twentieth (five per cent.) upon all commodities exported or imported by sea in the States of the allies subject to Athens. This tax was first imposed in B.C. 413-412, in the place of the direct tribute (φόρος) which had up to this time been paid by the subject allies; and the change was made with the hope of raising a greater revenue (Thuc.vii. 28). This tax, like so many others, was farmed, and the farmers of it were called εἰκοστολόγοι.

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

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