On one of them Italia is represented thanking the emperor for establishing some "alimenta publica," public relief institutions, and for apportioning lands to encourage needy parents to rear their children.
One of the temples shown in the relief which depicts the foundation of alimenta has only five columns in its portico, showing a want of accuracy in the drawing which throws great doubt upon its topographical value.
The Latin edition of this work is entitled Erucarum Ortus, Alimenta et Paradoxa Metamorphosis, Amsterdam, 1718.
In the first example, curiously enough, nutrimen seems to be also synonymous with alimenta in the second line before it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "alimenta" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
