Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Decimanus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

DECIMA'NUS or DECUMA'NUS. A contractor who leased from the government the right of farming and collecting the public tithes; a sort of land tax, consisting of a tenth part of the produce levied upon the subjects of all countries which had become the property of the state, either by voluntary surrender, or by conquest. Ascon. in Verr. i. 2. 5. Cic. ib. ii. 3. 8. and 33.

2. Ager decumanus. Land subject to the tithe of land tax, as just described. Cic. Verr. ii. 3. 6.

3. Frumentum decumanum. The tithe of corn; viz. one tenth of the produce, paid as the above tax. Cic. Verr. ii. 3. 5. and 81.

4. Miles decumanus. A soldier of the tenth legion. Hirt. B. Afr. 16. Tac. Hist. v. 20.

5. Porta Decumana. The principal gate of entrance to a Roman camp, which was the farthest removed from the enemy's front; marked A on the plan s. CASTRA. Veget. Mil. i. 23.