An approach to the figure of the discussor

Abstract

This paper analyzes the legal regime of the discussores, officials present since the Later Empire, whose tasks were mainly of tax inspection and intervention, among others collected in the sources. Their main rights and obligations and the measures established by imperial regulations to prevent and sanction possible abuses are examined here. In the last section it is briefly analyzed the survival of these officials in the Byzantine Empire and in some of the kingdoms that followed the fall of the Western Roman Empire..