What is "moneylenders"

Usage examples of "moneylenders".

The bank snatched the house back, and the moneylenders decided to give me a rough time.

She had no intention of leaving Liverpool until Georgie was well and truly settled in a new place, and wanted to be certain that the moneylenders were off her back for good.

She would cope with that, but moneylenders were a different kind of trouble.

Jack have freed me from the moneylenders, I have to look after myself.

And, learned Mithridates, these moneylenders were usually employees of the tax-farming companies, though the companies had no share in the money lending.

Asellio could enforce his revival of that old law, the moneylenders heard of his intention and petitioned him to reopen the bankruptcy courts.

Included among the senatorial moneylenders was Lucius Cassius, a tribune of the plebs.

A few days after his confrontation with the moneylenders he was already taking the auspices when he noticed that the crowd in the Forum below him was much larger than the usual gathering to witness an augury.

But even among the senatorial moneylenders opposition was halfhearted, as everyone could appreciate that collecting some money was better than collecting none, and Sulla had not attempted to abolish interest entirely.

Though the moneylenders were not Roman officials, they employed Roman officials to collect when debts became delinquent.

Led by one of their tribal elders known in Latin as Brogus, they had arrived to protest to the Senate against their treatment by a series of governors like Gaius Calpurnius Piso, and by certain moneylenders masquerading as bankers.

Roman Republican times, but one I have used to describe men deputed to keep law and order if lictors were not employed, and also to describe men employed by moneylenders to harass a debtor and prevent his absconding.

The moneylenders to whom the thirty-six-year-old rake owed millions began to dun him so persistently and unpleasantly that he hardly dared show his face in the better parts of Rome.