The granting of the sors to the presbyter Butila must have had some influence on the amount of money due by the city of Trent to the royal fisc. Therefore, Theodoric grants the city reduction of the tax (called tertia) exactly by the value of the sors expressed in the solidi. According to one interpretation, Butila's allotment was a land estate exempted from tax; while the overall amount of tax did not change, taxation would be more burdensome for the Roman owners, but the king agreed to diminish tax of Trent by the amount granted to Butila (see Liebeschuetz 2006: 142–143, Wickham 2006: 85). According to another, proposed by Walter Goffart (1980: 77–79; 2006: 184–191), Butila received a share of the taxes of a set quantity of assessed property in Trent (illatio tertiarum in the text), which he did not have to pay to the state but could keep for himself.