a. and sb. [f. L. arāri-us fiscal, ærāri-um the treasury, + -AN.]
A. adj. Connected with the public treasury; fiscal.
1850. Merivale, Rom. Emp. (1865), IV. xxxii. 19. The senate, the knights, and the aerarian tribunes.
B. sb. [The adj. used absol. sc. citizen.] A Roman citizen of the lowest, unenfranchised, class, who paid only a poll-tax (æra pendebat).
1872. E. Robertson, Hist. Ess., 225. The Ærarian was any contributor to the Roman treasury who was not in the enjoyment of the suffrage.
