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cheap indeed is the market of friendship

  • 1 annona

    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, [p. 126] 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.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > annona

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