corn-distributions

Updated: May 19, 2025

Here he had the very poor as his neighbours, the true urban proletariate which never dreamed of availing itself of agrarian assignments or colonial schemes, but set a very real value on the corn-distributions, and may have believed that their continuance would be threatened by Gracchus's fall from power.

A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones) Greenidge - A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate

Reform of the Distribution of Corn The corn-distributions in the capital had hitherto been looked on as a profitable prerogative of the community which ruled and, because it ruled, had to be fed by its subjects.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book V : The Establishment of the Military Monarchy

Reform of the Distribution of Corn The corn-distributions in the capital had hitherto been looked on as a profitable prerogative of the community which ruled and, because it ruled, had to be fed by its subjects.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)