Centesimam rerum venalium, post bella civilia institutam, deprecante populo, edixit Tiberius militare aerarium eo subsidio niti; simul imparem oneri rem publicam, nisi vicesimo militiae anno veterani dimitterentur.
A popular protest against the one per cent. duty on auctioned goods (which had been imposed after the Civil Wars) brought from Tiberius a declaration that the military exchequer was dependent on that resource; moreover, the commonwealth was not equal to the burden, unless the veterans were discharged only at the end of twenty years service.
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