Imposts vs Isopolity - What's the difference?
imposts | isopolity |
Equal rights of citizenship in different communities; mutual political rights.
* 1832 , Barthold Niebuhr, The History of Rome , Volume 2:
* 1911 , Coleman Phillipson, The International Law and Custom of Ancient Greece and Rome , Volume 1:
* 2004 , Roger Bagnall and Peter Derow, The Hellenistic Period :
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As nouns the difference between imposts and isopolity
is that imposts is while isopolity is equal rights of citizenship in different communities; mutual political rights.isopolity
English
Noun
(isopolities)- Isopolity...was a relation entered into by treaty between two perfectly equal and independent cities, mutually securing to their citizens all those privileges which a resident alien either could not exercise at all, or only through the mediation of a guardian; the right of intermarriage, of purchasing landed property, of making contracts of every kind, of suing and being sued in person, of being exempted from imposts [taxes] where citizens were so; and also of partaking in sacrifices and festivals.
- A mutual exchange of the private rights of citizenship established the relationship of isopolity...and carried with it the right of intermarriage...and the right to hold land and houses...in each other's dominions.
- A state of isopolity existed when the citizenship of one city was made equivalent to that of another, and vice versa.
- As the first member of the gens that occurs in history, Sex. Furius Medullinus, B.C. 488, is only five years later than the treaty of isopolity which Spurius Cassius Viscellinus concluded with the Latins...
