I. A driver-out, expeller: “regum (Junii Valeriique),” Liv. 9, 17, 11.—
II. A demander, exactor (cf.: redemptor, manceps, magister; also: publicanus, portitor).
A. In gen.: operis, i. e. an overseer, superintendent, enforcer of any kind of labor, Col. 3, 13, 10; cf. Liv. 45, 37; so, “assiduus studiorum,” Quint. 1, 3, 14; cf.: “asper recte loquendi,” id. 1, 7, 34: “molestissimus sermonis Latini,” Suet. Gramm. 22: “supplicii,” an executioner, Liv. 2, 5; cf. Tac. A. 11, 37, and 3, 14 fin.; cf. Vulg. Luc. 12, 58.—
B. In partic., a collector of taxes, a tax gatherer, * Caes. B. C. 3, 32, 4; Liv. 28, 25, 9; Firm. 4, 3 al.; Dig. 50, 4, 18, § 8; “or of other debts due the state,” ib. 22, 1, 33. (Not in Cic.; but cf. exactio.)
