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In [[Ancient Roman]] law enforcement, a '''compulsor''' was an [[Officer (armed forces)|officer]] under the [[Roman Empire|Roman Emperors]], dispatched from court into the provinces, to force the payment of taxes, etc, which had not been paid within the time prescribed.
The procedure is briefly summarized in ''[[Codex Theodosianus]]'' i.14.1, "omnia tributa exigere suscipere postremo conpellere iubemus." Egyptian documents also afford a good deal of illustration, as explained in [[Matthias Gelzer]]'s ''Studien zur byzantinischen Verwaltung Ägyptens'', 42 sqq.
These were charged with so many exactions, under color of their office, that [[Honorius]] dismissed them by law in [[412]].
The laws of the [[Visigoths]] mention military ''compulsors''; which were officers among the Goths, whose business was to oblige the tardy soldiers to go into the fight, to run an attack, etc.
[[Cassian of Imola|Cassian]] mentions a kind of [[monastic]] ''compulsors'', whose business was to declare the hours of canonical office, and to make sure the monks went to church at those hours.
The word is [[Latin]], formed of the verb ''compellere'', "to oblige; constrain".
==References==
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*Bury, J.B. ''History of the Later Roman Empire''. Vol 1, Ch 2. Macmillan & Co., Ltd. 1923.
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