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

Date: 1913

## The fact

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](/people/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.

## Evidence and sources

Official edition, museum, or agency page and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Suetonius, Caligula — LacusCurtius (Loeb English) (https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Caligula*.html; LacusCurtius / University of Chicago).

## Significance

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

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

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Caligula: https://factrail.ai/people/caligula

## Drivers

- Income Inequality: https://factrail.ai/drivers/income-inequality

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caligula-Roman-emperor
- https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Suetonius/12Caesars/Caligula*.html

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/cal-prostitute-tax