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annonae ("prefect of the provisions"), also
called the
praefectus rei
frumentariae ("prefect of the
grain supply") was a
Roman official charged with the...
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corresponding to
those stamped into a spectator's tessera.
Tesserae frumentariae and
nummariae were
tokens given at
certain times by the
Roman magistrates...
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retroagi possint,
neque vero
unquam tantum ibi
ventum esse ut
molae frumentariae cir****agendae sufficiat.
Simillima his
habet Giraldus Cambrensis in libro...
- Billows,
Julius Caesar, p.118. Holland, Rubicon, pp. 234, 235. See
Frumentariae Leges,
Unsigned article in
William Smith, D.C.L., LL.D.: A Dictionary...