arabarches

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

ărăbarches (this is the proper form, not ălăbarches; cf. Haeckermann in Jahn's Neue Jahrbb. 1849, 15, supplem., pp. 450-566; very likely some said

alabarches and alabarchia , because of the foll. r , to avoid two r s), ae, m., = ἀραβάρχης, an officer of customs in Egypt , Juv. 1, 130 Jahn, Hermann.—Sarcastically of Pompey, because he boasted that he had augmented the taxes so much: velim ex Theophane expiscere, quonam in me animo sit Arabarches, Cic. Att. 2, 17, 3.