stipendium

stīpendĭum, ii, n. [contr. from stipipendium, from stips-pendo].

I.

In publicists' lang., a tax, impost, tribute, contribution (payable in money; whereas vectigal in kind; the former being regarded as the more humiliating; v. stipendiarius, I.): Poeni stipendia pendunt, Enn. ap. Varr. L. L. 5, § 182 Müll. (Ann. v. 269 Vahl.); so,

pendere,

Caes. B. G. 1, 44; 5, 27; Sall. C. 20, 7; Liv. 2, 9; 21, 10:

conferre,

id. 33, 42:

solvere,

id. 39, 7:

imponere victis,

Caes. B. G. 1, 44; 7, 54:

stipendio liberare aliquem,

id. 5, 27:

de stipendio recusare,

id. ib. 1, 44:

stipendi spem facere,

Liv. 28, 25, 9.—

B.

Transf.

1.

In gen., tribute, dues ( poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

indomito nec dira ferens stipendia tauro (sc. Minotauro),

Cat. 64, 173:

quae finis aut quod me manet stipendium?

penalty, Hor. Epod. 17, 36:

alii tamen obscuriores (scriptores) aliquod stipendium nostro studio contulerunt,

contribution, Col. 1, 1, 10.—

2.

Income, subsistence, salary:

iis, ut adsiduae templi antistites essent, stipendium de publico statuit,

Liv. 1, 20, 3.—

II.

In milit. lang., pay, stipend in full:

stipendium militare,

Liv. 4, 60, 5; Plin. 33, 3, 13, § 45;

commonly stipendium alone: militis stipendia ideo, quod eam stipem pendebant,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 182 Müll.; cf. Plin. 33, 3, 13, § 43; Liv. 4, 59 and 60:

cum stipendium ab legionibus flagitaretur,

Caes. B. C. 1, 87:

numerare militibus,

Cic. Pis. 36, 88:

persolvere,

id. Att. 5, 14, 1: dare, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 26; Liv. 2, 12; 5, 12; cf.:

dare pecuniam in stipendium,

Caes. B. C. 1, 23; Liv. 27, 9 fin.:

accipere,

id. 5, 4:

stipendio afficere exercitum,

Cic. Balb. 27, 61:

augere,

Caes. B. C. 3, 110:

fraudare,

id. ib. 3, 59:

stipendium duum mensium,

Curt. 5, 1, 45:

dum in calamitosis stipendiis versaretur,

might get pay by the misfortunes of others, Amm. 19, 12, 2.—

B.

Transf., military service (mostly in plur.):

merere stipendia,

Cic. Mur. 5, 12:

stipendia merere (mereri),

to perform military service, to serve, id. Cael. 5, 11; id. de Or. 2, 64, 258; also,

facere,

Sall. J. 63, 3; Liv. 3, 27; 5, 7; 42, 34 al.; cf.:

opulenta ac ditia facere,

id. 21, 43:

emereri,

to complete the time of service, to serve out one's time, id. 25, 6; Cic. Sen. 14, 49; Sall. J. 84, 2; Liv. 3, 57; Val. Max. 6, 1, 10;

v. emereo, II.: auxiliaria stipendia mereri,

Tac. A. 2, 52:

numerare,

Liv. 4, 58:

enumerare,

id. 3, 58:

qui (milites) jam stipendiis confecti erant,

Cic. Imp. Pomp. 9, 26; cf.:

stipendiis exhausti,

Liv. 27, 9:

adulescentuli statim castrensibus stipendiis imbuebantur,

Plin. Ep. 8, 14, 5.— Sing.:

homo nullius stipendii,

Sall. J. 85, 10:

exercitui dare,

id. H. 2, 96, 6 Dietsch:

sextus decimus stipendii annus,

Tac. A. 1, 17.—

2.

In partic., military service of a year, a year's service, a campaign:

si in singulis stipendiis is ad hostes exuvias dabit,

Plaut. Ep. 1, 1, 36:

quod tricena aut quadragena stipendia senes tolerent,

Tac. A. 1, 17:

vicena stipendia meritis,

id. ib. 1, 36:

stipendia sua numerari jubebant,

Just. 12, 11, 4:

qui eorum minime multa stipendia haberet,

Liv. 31, 8 fin.—Sing.:

(juventus) octavo jam stipendio functa,

Hirt. B. G. 8, 8, 2; cf.

with both numbers together: secundo stipendio dextram manum perdidit, stipendiis duobus ter et vicies vulneratus est,

Plin. 7, 28, 29 § 104.—

C.

Trop., in gen., service (very rare):

functus omnibus humanae vitae stipendiis,

i. e. duties, Sen. Ep. 93, 4:

tamquam emeritis stipendiis libidinis,

Cic. Sen. 14, 49:

plurium velut emeritis annorum stipendiis,

Col. 3, 6, 4:

rex cui (Hercules) duodecim stipendia debebat,

services, labors, Just. 2, 4, 18.