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Loeb Suetonius prints new taxes including a levy on prostitutes’ earnings

The Loeb vita lists extraordinary taxes, including on porters and prostitutes, as fiscal theatre after the early gifts. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Income Inequality.

Loeb Suetonius prints new taxes including a levy on prostitutes’ earnings

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The Loeb vita lists extraordinary taxes, including on porters and prostitutes, as fiscal theatre after the early gifts. Fiscal extraction from the least protected is an inequality path in the received account.

Context

Early largesse and later taxes are a pair. Improving gift rows do not cancel a later tax list. Confidence medium because Suetonius loves fiscal cartoons.

Caligula is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

Why it matters

A printed tax on sex-work earnings is an extraction heading, not a modern vice statute.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Caligula

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.28 · verified

    Princeps as named in later editions and objects. Historians, museums, and later states publish the instrument.

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactLoeb Suetonius prints new taxes including a levy on prostitutes’ earnings
    2. strengthensDriverIncome Inequality

    impact weight 0.35 · Effect from 1 January 1913 · verified

    A printed tax on sex-work earnings is an extraction heading, not a modern vice statute.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — CaligulaEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Suetonius, Caligula — LacusCurtius (Loeb English)LacusCurtius / University of Chicago · High credibility · verified

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorCaligula
  2. contributed toFactLoeb Suetonius prints new taxes including a levy on prostitutes’ earnings
  3. strengthensDriverIncome Inequality

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Factrail. (2026). Loeb Suetonius prints new taxes including a levy on prostitutes’ earnings. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/cal-prostitute-tax

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