of the Greco-Roman Era in certain ancient Sites of Asia Minor. 27 
policy with which he commences his Annals: “The army he allured with 
largesses, the people with cheap markets, the community in general with the 
delights of repose.”’* 
Another passage in the fourth book of the Annals, taken in connexion with 
Livy’s statement as to the policy of an illustrious citizen in an early period of the 
republic, affords an excellent commentary on the language of this inscription : 
**The populace (writes Tacitus) was wearied out with the high price of 
provisions : but for that the prince (viz. Tiberius) was not to be blamed ; on the 
contrary, he used his endeavours to remedy the unfruitfulness of the land, as well 
as the tempests of the sea, so far as it was possible to do by activity and a liberal 
expenditure.” } i 
Livy’s expressions are to this effect: “The dearth of provisions was the 
source of much anxiety to the city, the issue of which would have been the most 
extreme destitution, as we learn from those writers who state that Fabius Maxi- 
mus was Curule Aedile of that year, had not that functionary exhibited the same 
activity in the regulation of the market, by providing and storing corn, by which 
he had distinguished himself so honorably, on several emergencies, during his 
military operations.’ ’{ 
This important office devolved in regular course on the Aediles and Cen- 
sors,§ the former of whom the Greco-Romans termed, as we have seen, “Ayopa- 
vouot, a word borrowed, as many others were, from the Athenian polity. But 
here we are to guard against being misled by an identity of terms. ‘The powers 
of the Athenian @yopavojos appear to have been more limited than those of 
the prefectus annone, who seems to have represented in his single person not 
* «Militem donis, populum annona, cunctos dulcedine otii pellexit.” Tacit. Annal. i. 2. 
+ ‘Plebes acri quidem annona fatigabantur ; sed nulla in eo culpa ex principe; quin infecun- 
ditati terrarum, aut asperis maris obviam iit, quantum impendio diligentiaque poterat.” Annal. iv. 6. 
t “Caritas etiam annone sollicitam civitatem habuit; ventumque ad inopiz ultimum foret, ut 
scripsere, quibus zdilem fuisse eo anno Fabium Maximum placet, ni ejus viri cura, qualis in bellicis 
rebus multis tempestatibus fuerat, talis domi tum in annone dispensatione, preeparando ac conyehendo 
frumento, fuisset.” Hist.x. 11. This was U. C. 453. 
§ Vid. Livy. ubi supra. Plin. xiv. 16, Edit. Lemaire. 
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