Lucar

Money paid from the Roman treasury to the persons who presided over the ludi scaenici, as a contribution towards the expense. It was originally the money derived from the sacred groves (luci); but, because it was used for the expenses of the ludi, the word lucar usually bears the secondary meaning of money devoted to the payment of actors, etc. (Tac. Ann. i. 77). By a regulation of Servius Tullius, on each death a piece of money had to be presented to the goddess Libitinae (lucar Libitinae, cf. Dionys.iv. 15).