History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . a coin. 2 Met. i. and Digest, 1. 2, 12. 8 Sometimes the duumvirs kept this duty, as at Salpensa. In certain cities the quaestor-ship was only a munus, in others a honos (Digest, 1. 4, is, sect. 2). The inferior officers, scribae,librarii, etc., received a stipend, which at Osuna varied from 1,200 to 1,300 sesterces. TILE CITY. 67 the cities which had kept this privilege, levies for the maintenanceof highways, sewers, aqueducts from the owners of adjacent prop-erty, etc. To these sour
History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . a coin. 2 Met. i. and Digest, 1. 2, 12. 8 Sometimes the duumvirs kept this duty, as at Salpensa. In certain cities the quaestor-ship was only a munus, in others a honos (Digest, 1. 4, is, sect. 2). The inferior officers, scribae,librarii, etc., received a stipend, which at Osuna varied from 1,200 to 1,300 sesterces. TILE CITY. 67 the cities which had kept this privilege, levies for the maintenanceof highways, sewers, aqueducts from the owners of adjacent prop-erty, etc. To these sources of income were added sums voluntarilyexpended by citizens who had accepted the oversight of a municipalservice. In modern times a man is at liberty to decline publicoffice, and salaries are paid to those accepting them; in the RomanEmpire, public service was obligatory, and imposed expenditure : itwas a civic obligation, munus? Thus the administration cost littleor nothing. The large expenditures were for public works. Animperial rescript appropriated a third of the revenue for these;.
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