{"id":42468,"date":"2018-09-16T13:05:35","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T11:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/ciekawostka\/roman-tax-collectors-were-extortioners\/"},"modified":"2018-09-16T13:06:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T11:06:12","slug":"roman-tax-collectors-were-extortioners","status":"publish","type":"ciekawostki","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/roman-tax-collectors-were-extortioners\/","title":{"rendered":"Roman tax collectors were extortioners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roman <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/article\/tax-collectors-slaves-of-their-own-offices\/\">tax collectors<\/a> were <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/curiosities\/apparently-donuts-were-already-loved-by-ancient-romans\/\">apparently<\/a> usually extraordinary &#8220;extortioners.&#8221; The father of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/vespasian\/\">Emperor Vespasian<\/a> &#8211; <b><a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/titus-flavius\/\">Titus Flavius<\/a> Sabinus<\/b> was an exception. He was a tax collector of the fortieth part (<em>quadragesima<\/em>, port tax) in Asia. According to sources, he was an extremely righteous and just man in performing his role.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In exchange for his good office in Asian cities, he even had monuments with the signature of &#8220;Reliable collector&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36513,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-42468","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/42468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/42468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=42468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}