The first indiction of thirteen years beginning with 1 Kan, the second began with 1 Muluc, the third with 1 Ix, and the fourth with 1 Cauac.
And by a very easy connection of ideas, the word indiction was transferred to the measure of tribute which it prescribed, and to the annual term which it allowed for the payment.
In return, they were themselves exempt, altogether, or in part, from the indiction and other imposts.
It does not appear that the establishment of the indiction is to be at tributed to Constantine: it existed before he had been created Augustus at Rome, and the remission granted by him to the city of Autun is the proof.
But inasmuch as St. Luke was to be taken up with the new year, the year of the indiction [Arund.
Indiction 6, which we took from Scholz (see above, p.
The date of the year is lost, but the month (May) and indiction (8) remain.
The name of indiction is given to each one of the four weeks of years composing the cycle of 52 years.
This oath was given the fifteenth day of August, indiction XIII, the twenty-third year of the reign of our lord Justinian, the ninth year after the consulship of the illustrious Basil.
We are met together on this 24th day of September, the first indiction in the place called Hertford.
Dated the 22d June in the nineteenth year of the reign of Mauritius Tiberius, the most pious Augustus, in the eighteenth year of the consulship of the same Lord, indiction four.
Indiction was instituted by Constantine in 313 for fiscal purposes.
Hence, to know the year of indiction is useless for determining the date in old documents of State.
Indiction was a cycle of fifteen years, the first of which dated from the third year of the Christian era.
The amount of the land tax to be raised each year was announced in an annual proclamation called an indiction (indictio), and a revaluation of the tax units was made periodically.
The term indiction was also used of the period between two reassessments, which occurred at first every five, but after 312 A.
The Saros of the Chaldaeans, the Olympiad of the Greeks, and the Roman Indiction are instances of this mode of reckoning time.
The cycle of Indiction was very generally followed in the Roman empire for some centuries before the adoption of the Christian era.
As the Indiction began on the 1st of September a question arises whether the calendar year is to be named after the number of the Indiction which belongs to its beginning or its end; whether, to go back to the beginning, A.
Receive then now the dignity of Quaestor for this sixth Indiction (Sept.
If a Possessor can show that he paid his tax (tributarius solidus) for the now expired eighth Indiction (A.
We therefore hereby bestow upon you, for the fourth Indiction [Sept.
Take then for this Indiction the Praefectura Vigilum.
We therefore confer upon you the dignity of Count of the Sacred Largesses from this sixth Indiction (Sept.
We therefore authorise you to deduct at the next Indiction what shall seem the right proportion for these losses from the amount due to us[227].
Take then for the twelfth Indiction the ensigns of the Consulship[619].
The practice of the chroniclers and of most writers on chronology appears to be in favour of the latter method, which is natural, inasmuch as nine months of the Indiction belong to the later date and only three to the earlier.
Receive then for this Indiction the Praesidatus of such and such a Province, and so act that the tiller of the soil (possessor) may bring us thanks along with his tribute.
We entrust to you therefore for this Indiction the dignity of the Comitiva Romana, with all its rights and just emoluments.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "indiction" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: aeon; age; cycle; date; day; generation
