The spoils of this war with Macedonia brought an enormous booty into the Roman treasury, and from this time the war tax on property--the tributum civium Romanorum--ceased to be levied.
In order to meet the cost of the early wars a special contribution from property (tributum ex censu) was levied at times of emergency, though it was in some cases regarded as an advance to be repaid when the occasion of expense was over.
To the latter were adjoined capitation and trade taxes (the tributum capitis).
In both cases they paid their tribute to their lord, whilst the lord paid the imperial tributum for himself and for them.
Alamannic laws to his lord, the latter thenceforth paying the public tributum for the land to the State.
The combination of the dues in kind and in ploughing, with sometimes other services, made up the tributum in servitium--i.
Further, as the English manorial lord paid the hidage for the whole manor, so the lord of the villa, under Roman law, paid the tributum not only for his own demesne land, but also for the land of his coloni and tenants.
And the tribute of the Alamannic and Bavarian laws, and of the St. Gall and other charters, was found to be equally clearly a survival of the Roman tributum in the German province of Rhætia and the 'Agri Decumates.
Macedonia the treasury received such large sums from the provinces that the tributum was abolished.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tributum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
