aes uxorium

AES UXO´RIUMa tax paid by men who reached old age without having married. It was first imposed by the censors, M. Furius Camillus and M. Postumius, in B.C. 403, but we do not know whether it continued to be levied afterwards. (Festus, s. v.; Val. Max.; Plut. Cam. 2.) [LEX JULIA ET PAPIA POPPAEA]

A tax paid by men who reached old age without marrying, and first imposed by the censors in B.C. 403. See Lex Iulia et Papia Poppaea, under Lex; see also marriage.