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In ancient Rome, a fund or treasury. Under the Roman empire, the word came to denote the emperor's funds (hence the word ‘fiscal’), as distinct from the aerarium or public treasury, which gradually came to have little importance.



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Barnes, The Sack of the Temple in Josephus and Tacitus (Ch 6); James Rives, Flavian Religious Policy and the Destruction of the Jerusalem Temple (Ch 7); Martin Goodman, The Fiscus Iudaicus [Jewish Treasury] and Gentile Attitudes to Judaism in Flavian Rome (Ch 8).
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