Perhaps there is a reference to the Annona Publica.
You have to prepare the Annona of the sacred City, and to feed the whole people as at one board.
He had the care of the Annona or corn-largesses to the people, the command of the City-watch, and the duty of keeping the aqueducts in proper repair.
The nona, as it is called by the natives (Annona reticulata), is another species of the same fruit, but not so grateful to the taste.
The Custard Apple, annona reticulata, is a genus of the polygynia order, class polyandria.
The sportula was a form of charity corresponding to the annona civica.
As in the times of the annona civica, slavery, feudalism, or statutory serfdom, the burthen of the maintenance of the poor fell only in part on charity.
Ultimately the distribution of pensions by way of out-door relief, corrupting a far more independent people, is calculated to work a far greater injury than the annona civica.
But as the problem of poverty was considered from a broader standpoint, there was a desire to deal with it in a more permanent manner than by the annona civica.
The annona civica was introduced not only into Constantinople, but also into Alexandria, with baleful results, and into Antioch.
Early in its history the annona civica attracted many to Rome in the hope of living there without working.
The clergy had thus become the owners of large properties, with the coloni and slaves upon the estates and the allowances of civic corn (annona civica); and (A.
Then, in the main, natural social forces would come into play, and dependence on any form of annona civica would cease.
The civic authority had indeed taken over the alms of the parish, and an eleemosyna civica had taken the place of the annona civica.
But the annona civica was an endowed charity, affecting not a single family, but the whole population.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "annona" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
