The damnatio memoriae is still a common practice at the beginning of the 4th century. Until 360 AD, the usurpers' name is concealed in the speeches ; texts talk about pulled down statues of tyrants, but the laws sometimes mention their names, not in the addresses but in the consulates or in the text. The inscriptions erasure is quite irregular : an inventory of the texts shows sometimes only a part of the name erased and erasures for religious reasons, removing the name of persecutors who did not sustain official damnatio. After Julian, the erasure of the emperors' names is hardly practiced, except that of the dismissed dignitaries until around 410. After this date, evidence no longer subsist.
Résumé. — II est généralement dit que le chrysargyre, impôt sur les commerçants et artisans du ive et Ve s., était levé tous les cinq ans en liaison avec les anniversaires quinquennaux des empereurs. Une étude de tous les textes et des documents datés attestant la levée de cet impôt prouve qu'il n'en est rien : la levée est quadriennale et indépendante des anniversaires impériaux. On peut reconstituer le cycle probable des levées et fixer la création de cette taxe en 314 ou en 318.
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