Aerarium

The Aerarium Saturni (top) and its ruins (bottom); drawing by Jan Goeree, before 1704

Aerarium, from aes ("bronze, money") + -ārium ("place for"), was the name given in Ancient Rome to the public treasury,[1] and in a secondary sense to the public finances.[2]

  1. ^ Burton 2012, para 1.
  2. ^  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Aerarium". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 259.