Obultronius Sabinus was quaestor aerarii in 56[1] or 57 AD:[2] the quaestor aerarii fulfilled the role of paymaster militaria.[3]

It is accounted to by the writer Tacitus, that a tribune of the people named Helvidius Priscus brought an action against Obultronius Sabinus. The accusation was harassment for the purposes of unreasonable confiscations. The decision of the Emperor, at that time Nero, was to transfer the responsibility of the task of acquiring the assets of others instead to prefects who had been entrusted especially with the afore-mentioned civic duty.[4]

References

  1. ^ MT Griffin, Nero: The End of a Dynasty (p. 57), Routledge, 11 Sep 2002, ISBN 1134610432 [Retrieved 2015-04-09]
  2. ^ William Smith, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, Volume 3, J. Baylis 1873 (ed. W.Smith) [Retrieved 2915-04-09]
  3. ^ REA Palmer, The Archaic Community of the Romans (p. 241), Cambridge University Press, 1970 ISBN 0521077028 [Retrieved 2015-04-09]
  4. ^ Publius Cornelius Tacitus, Annals translated by Arthur Murphy. Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street 1830 [Retrieved 2015-05-15]


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