Annona

Word ANNONA
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Since the Middle Ages, all Italian cities had provisioned themselves at the countryside’s expense through a system known as the annona. ❋ John Dickie (2008)

Bakers, merchants, and annona officials became powerful vested interests. ❋ John Dickie (2008)

In Naples, the annona was in the hands of a cabal of corrupt city magnates and nobles, and the royal government was too weak to counter their influence. ❋ John Dickie (2008)

After the famine of 1763–64 there was talk of abolishing the annona and introducing a free market in grain. ❋ John Dickie (2008)

But many annona systems became fiendishly complex as the different political factions within the city wrestled over the power to distribute food: there were depots and distribution centers, inspectorates and tribunals; there were grain quotas and regulations on the precise size of a loaf of bread; in some places, storing corn in the countryside was banned. ❋ John Dickie (2008)

In other systems D. latifolia is planted with mango, annona, jackfruit, and guava. ❋ Unknown (1990)

This pattern of shifting between his pet mutations and the new annona became established by the middle of the thirteenth volume and continued through the fifteenth. ❋ Jonathan Kellerman (1986)

I looked through all of them but could find no reference to annona zingiber. ❋ Jonathan Kellerman (1986)

I looked through all of them but could find no reference to annona zingiber, Puzzled, I searched the shelves for suitable reference material and pulled out a thick dog-eared volume titled Botanical ❋ Kellerman, Jonathan (1986)

The paw-paw tree (_annona triloba_) produces a fruit somewhat resembling in taste and shape the fig-banana, but certainly much inferior to that delicious fruit. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

Nocte quadam [°7] contigit ut eum doctor egregius Finnianus cum annona frumenti ad molendinum transmitteret. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

[Footnote C: A market district in Rome.] nunc barbarica lege certumst ius meum omne persequi: qui consilium iniere, quo nos victu et vita prohibeant, is diem dicam, inrogabo multam. ut mihi cenas decem meo arbitratu dent, cum cara annona sit. sic egero. nunc ibo ad portum hinc: est illic mi una spes cenatica; si ea decolabit, redibo huc ad senem ad cenam asperam. ❋ Titus Maccius Plautus (1919)

_Rationalii_, who distributed the rations to the receivers of the annona [182], the _Applicitarii_ (officers of arrest), and ❋ Senator Cassiodorus (1872)

Rationalii, persons charged with distribution of the annona, 114. ❋ Senator Cassiodorus (1872)

Every attempt to buy or sell it is, in the outcome, ineffectual; so far as successful, it is not sale, but Betrayal; and the purchase-money is a part of that thirty pieces which bought, first the greatest of labours, and afterwards the burial-field of the Stranger; for this purchase-money, being in its very smallness or vileness the exactly measured opposite of the "vilis annona amicorum," makes all men strangers to each other. ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

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