the loaves of bread them selves

annōna, ae, f. [from annus, as pomona from pomum].

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.—

Esp.

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.—

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.—

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,

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.—

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.—

Personified, the goddess of the yearly produce:

ANNONAE SANCTAE AELIVS VITALIO, etc.,

Inscr. Orell. 1810.