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                    "description": "annōna (noun F) : from annus, as pomona from pomum.\n* 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.\n* Esp.\n* 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.\n* 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.\n* 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\n* 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.\n* 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.\n* Personified, the goddess of the yearly produce: ANNONAE SANCTAE AELIVS VITALIO, etc.,Inscr. Orell. 1810."
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