Jastrow: כְּרִיסוֹ

כְּרִיסוֹ, כ׳ אַרְגִּירָא m. (χρυσοάργυρον, usu. χρυσάργυρον) gold and silver tax levied by Constantine the Great (v. Sachs Beitr. II, 140; Rapap. Er. Mill. p. 193, a. authors there quoted). Y. B. Kam. III, 3ᶜ top אהן כ׳ א׳ וכ׳ as to the chrysargyron: before that tax is arranged, it is permitted to say (to the officers), ‘this man is my fellow-trader’; when it has been arranged (and is being collected), it is not permitted (because it would injure the person omitted in the list without alleviating the burden of others); cmp. אכסניי.—Pl. כְּרִיסַרְגּוּרִיּוֹת. Cant. R. II, 2 (variously corrupted).—Midr. Till. to Ps. XII מרגזאות, ed. Bub. מזה נמסאות; Yalk. ib. 656 מדגראות, read: כְּרִיזַרְגְּרָאוֹת (ascribed to Hadrian).