Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), A, Aenēid, Aerarii

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Aerarii

By the constitution of Servius Tullius (see Centuria), aerarii were citizens who were not settled on land of their own, and therefore not included in any one of the property classes founded on land-ownership. The term was also applied to those standing outside of the tribal union, who were excluded from the right of voting and from military service, and who were bound to pay a poll-tax in proportion to their means. Citizens in the classes and tribes could be expelled from their tribe by the censors in punishment for any fault, and placed among the aerarii. But when the latter were likewise admitted into the tribes (B.C. 308), being enrolled in the city tribes (B.C. 304), which were on that account less esteemed than the country ones, a penal transfer to the aerarii consisted in expulsion from one's proper tribe and removal to one of the city tribes till at least the next census.

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

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