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PUBLICAN, civil law. A farmer of the public revenue; one who held a lease of some property from the public treasury. Dig. 39, 4, 1, 1; Id. 39, 4, 12, 3; Id. 39, 4, 13.

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tanquam eunucus et publicanus [sic].(9) Because I love you loyally for
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101) that Mommsen's neat distinction between the telones (= Roman portitor) and the demosiones (= Roman publicanus) cannot be sustained because the terms are much too fluid in actual usage, but that we must reckon with two distinct systems, the Roman and the Hellenistic, right through our period.
Jesus und die Zollner: Historische und neutestamentlich-exegetische Untersuchungen
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