“Whether royal servants consistently made fortunes from fees and peculation seems doubtful.”

“If found guilty of corruption or peculation, they are imprisoned for three years in a bagnio.”

“He obtained his discharge, brought an accusation of peculation against some of his former officers, and in 1792 retired, first to France then to America, to avoid prosecution.”

“The Emperor had understood perfectly that his information was correct and that the principal inspector was a peculator.”

“The man who was not a sinecurist or a peculator was pretty sure to be a profligate or a gambler.”

“As Finlay points out in his thoughtful history of Greece, Belisarius must have been a peculator on a large and dangerous scale.”