Annona
    | Please |help| us convert the |Dictionary of Roman Coins| from scans to text by typing the original text here. Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate. ANNONA, a provision of victuals for one year. This word particularly applies to corn. Anonna civilis, the corn which was every year reserved, and put into magazones for the subsistence of the people. Anonna militaris, the corn appropriated to the use of an army, during a campaign. This word also signifies the price whhich the Ediles put on marketable commodities; for individuals, among the Romans, were not allowed to sell their merchandise, according to what each thought proper; but the seller was obliged to abide by the value, which the magistrates assigned as the price of an article. Annonam macelli, says Tacitus, Senatus arbitratu, quotannis temperari voluit. -- By the Code De Naviculariis, the mariners appointed to carry corn from Egypt were capitally punished if they did not keep the proper course; and it they did not sail in the proper season, the master of the vessel was banished. |
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Annona
| Please |help| us convert the |Dictionary of Roman Coins| from scans to text by typing the original text here. Please add updates or make corrections to the NumisWiki text version as appropriate. ANNONA, a provision of victuals for one year. This word particularly applies to corn. Annona civilis, the corn which was every year reserved, and put into magazones for the subsistence of the people. Annona militaris, the corn appropriated to the use of an army, during a campaign. This word also signifies the price whhich the Ediles put on marketable commodities; for individuals, among the Romans, were not allowed to sell their merchandise, according to what each thought proper; but the seller was obliged to abide by the value, which the magistrates assigned as the price of an article. Annonam macelli, says Tacitus, Senatus arbitratu, quotannis temperari voluit. -- By the Code De Naviculariis, the mariners appointed to carry corn from Egypt were capitally punished if they did not keep the proper course; and it they did not sail in the proper season, the master of the vessel was banished. "Annona was anciently worshipped as the goddess who prospered the year's increase. She was represented on an altar in the capitol, with the inscription "Annonae Sanctae Aelius Vitalio," &c. (Gruter, p. 8, n. 10), as a female, with the right arm and shoulder bare, and the rest of the body clothed, holding cars of corn in her right hand, and the cornucopiae in her left." -- Dict. of Gr. and Rom. Antiquities, p. 50.
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