Exáctio, ônis, f. g. Verbale fœmininum. Exaction: pilling of the people.Nominum exactio.Cic.A constraining to paye debts.Operum publicorum exactio, Cic.Exactio operis. Colum. A seeing of one and constraining to do his businesse.Exactio pecuniarum.Cic.A leuying of money.Publicæ exactiones. A sinius Pollio Ciceroni. Exactio regum. Cic An expelling of kings.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
exactĭo, ōnis, f. [exigo]. I.A driving out, expelling: (regum), Cic. de Or. 1, 9, 37 (perh. only on account of the preceding exactis regibus).—II.A demanding, exacting, requisition.A. In gen.: in exhibendis operariis, Lact. Mort. Pers. 7, 8: quotidiana, operis, Col. 11, 1, 26.—Hence, the supervision, conduct of a public work; cf. exactor, II. A.: operum publicorum, Cic. Dom. 20, 51.—Far more freq., B. In partic., a calling in, collecting of debts, Cic. Att. 5, 1; id. Leg. 2, 20, 51; Liv. 38, 38; Dig. 42, 8, 24: vectigalium, Vulg. 2 Macc. 4, 28 et saep.—2.Transf., a tax, tribute, impost: acerbissima capitum atque ostiorum,