noun

ărăbarches

gen. ărăbarchae · gender masculine · decl. 1st

(this is the proper form, not ; cf. Haeckermann in Jahn's Neue Jahrbb. 1849, 15, supplem., pp. 450-566; very likely some said

alabarches; alabarchia; an officer of customs in Egypt •

alabarches and alabarchia, because of the foll. r, to avoid two rs), ae, m., = ἀραβάρχης, an officer of customs in Egypt, Juv. 1, 130 Jahn, Hermann.—Sarcastically of Pompey, because he boasted that he had augmented the taxes so much: velim ex Theophane expiscere, quonam in me animo sit Arabarches, Cic. Att. 2, 17, 3.

Perseus ID: n3311 Key: arabarches