It seems clear that these titles were taken over into the imperial offices from the private corporations of tax-collectors, societates publicanorum, at the same time that the government assumed the responsibility for the raising of taxes. By the end of the second century these EPOX EP4PGAI and Vicemasters had disappeared, probably owing to a reorganization of the procuratorial system. In the third century appears another group of Masters. The title was then used of the officials in charge of the[…]
