concept
fiscus
The emperor's privy treasury (as distinct from the public aerarium), to which confiscations could be claimed.
Reading notes
- The Annals §4.20 the fiscus
The emperor's privy purse, as opposed to the public treasury (aerarium); confiscated property could be claimed for it.
- The Annals §4.30 informers
Delatores, the professional accusers whose rewards (a share of the condemned man's estate) Tiberius defended; Tacitus calls them a class 'devised for the public ruin.'