Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), S, Scodra, Scriptūra

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A part of the revenue of the Roman Republic derived from the lease of such parts of the ager publicus as could be used for pasture (pascua publica). They were let by the censors to the publicans. (See Publicani.) Those who grazed cattle on these lands were called pecuarii and paid for their use. Such cattle were registered (scripti), whence the name scriptura. When the pasture-lands were assigned to individual owners this tax disappeared. Cf. Pliny, H. N. xviii. 11; Pro Flacco, 8, 18.

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

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