Question

1. What is meant '
by a 'fawning publican? Explain any allusion, if prese​

Answer 1

Answer:

meant is the place where coins are maid

Answer 2

he is like a fawning publican a grovelling tax collector. Although a publican traditionally someone who own a bar or a traven as it would have been called in those days in ancient times a publican was the hated and much aligned collector of taxes so shylock is comparing Antonio to that