Annôna, annónæ, pen. prod. Cic.Victualor sustinance or liuing: corne: also finding in meate, drlnke or apparell: sometime a yeares or monethes stipend or wages.Annona lactis. Columel. Prouision of milke.Annona musti. Colum. Prouision of new wine.Annona salaria Liu.Aeris annona. Tac. Great dearth of victuals.Caritas annonæ.Cic.Dearth of victuals.Arctior annona. Suet. Scarsitie or dearth.Annona cara.Terent.Difficultas annonæ.Cic.Scarsitie: dearth.Facta durior annona Cic.As become deerer.Fœcundæ annonæ prouincia.Tacit.Graui annona conflictari. Cæs. To be grieued, with great scarsitie and lacke of victuall.Grauitas annonæ. Tac. Starsirie: dearth.Incendium annonæ. Quint Dearth.Vilitas nec opinara consecura est annonam carissimam. Ci. So great cheape as no man would haue thought.Annonæ vilitas Cic. Attentare annonam & vexare. Vlpian. Commutata annona.Cic.Changed to an other price.Comprimere annonam.Liu.By buying of much victual & corne, to keepe it at a high price.Conualescit annona. Suet. There beginneth to be more plenty or cheape of victuall or corne.Crescit annona. Cæs. Victuall ciseth to a higher price.Excandefacere annonam. Varro. To make victuall rise to a higher price.Flagellare annonam. Plin. To make victuall deere.Incendere annonam. Varro. To inhaunce the price of.Inferre caritatem annonæ Plin.To make dearth.Ingrauescit annona. Cæsar Victuall wareth deere.Laxat annona.Liu.Waxeth better cheape.Laxior annona Liu.Better cheape of victnall.Leuare vrbis annonam.Liu.To make better cheape.Leuare populÛ in annone caritate, frumento suppedirato. C. Non habet pretium annona.Cic.Onerant annonam eriam stateræ adulterinæ. Vlpian. Make victuall deecer.Prodesse annonæ Horat.To make at a lower price. Duplas consequebatur annonas. Vegetius. He had double allowance of victuall: or so much as two other.Annonarius. Budæ. A victualer: a poulter.
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annōna, ae, f. [from annus, as pomona from pomum]. I. In gen., the yearly produce, the annual income of natural products, in the widest sense (cf.: cibaria annua, Cato, R. R. 60): vectigal novum ex salariā annonā, Liv. 29, 37: lactis, Col. 8, 17, 13: musti, id. 3, 21, 6; 3, 3, 10.—II. Esp. A.Means of subsistence, and, for the most part, corn or grain: annona nisi in calamitate pretium non habet, Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 98: vilitas annonae ex summā inopiā et caritate rei frumentariae consecuta est, id. Imp. Pomp. 15, 44: uberrimus ager ad varietates annonae horreum populi Romani fore videbatur, Liv. 7, 31: clausis annonae subsidiis, Tac. H. 3, 48 fin.: provincia annonae fecunda, id. ib. 1, 11; cf. Suet. Aug. 18: annonae curam agere, id. Claud. 18; cf. id. Tib. 8: praebebant annonam regi, Vulg. 3 Reg. 4, 7; ib. 4 Reg. 25, 30; ib. Dan. 1, 5 al.—Sometimes contrasted with frumentum, as provisions in gen.: copia frumenti et annona tolerabilis rerum aliarum, a supply, Liv 35, 44.—B. 1..Meton., the price of grain or other food: quom cara annona sit, Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 35; id. Stich. 1, 3, 25; Ter. And. 4, 4, 7; Cic. Div. 2, 27 fin.: annona est gravis, Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 53; so Suet. Aug. 25: incendere annonam, Varr. R. R. 3, 2, 16: jam ad denarios quinquaginta in singulos modios annona pervenerat, Caes. B. C. 1, 52: nihil mutavit annona, Liv. 5, 12 (cf. id. 2, 34: annona vetus): annona acris, Tac. A. 4, 6: gravitas annonae, id. ib. 6, 13: in annonae difficultatibus, Suet. Aug. 41: annona macelli, id. Tib. 34.—2.Trop., the prices, the market: Qui homines probi essent, esset īs annona vilior, Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 140: Vilis amicorum est annona, bonis ubi quid deest,
cheap indeed is the market of friendship
, Hor. Ep. 1, 12, 24: his opibus numquam cara est annona veneni, Juv. 9, 100.—Hence sometimes, C.Dearness: cena hac annonā est sine sacris hereditas, at the present (i. e. high) market-price, at the present dear rate, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 83: ob annonae causam, Cic. Dom. 5.—D. In milit. lang., provisions, supplies: necessitas annonam pariter et arma portandi, Veg. Mil. 1, 19: annona decem et septem dierum, Amm. 17, 9.—Hence, meton., the loaves of bread them selves, rations (in this sense only in the plur.): ceteri annonas binas aut ternas accipiebant, Lampr. Alex. Sev. 42; cf. Cod. Th. 7,5.—E. Personified, the goddess of the yearly produce: ANNONAE SANCTAE AELIVS VITALIO, etc., Inscr. Orell. 1810.