[691] Annona, a day’s ration, ἡμερήσιον. A common way of reckoning salaries. Cf. Ammian. xxii. 4 ‘Tonsor quidam interrogans quid haberet in arte compendii, vicenas diurnas respondit annonas’.

[692] Cod. Theod. xiii. 3. 5.

[693] These are treated together here because they always appear together in the Theodosian Code.

[694] Ep. i. 79, v. 35 (Seeck) ‘Romanae iuventutis magistris subsidia detracta’, Cassiodor. Var. ix. 21.

[695] Op. cit., p. 122.

[696] Cf. Cassiodor. Var. ix. 21 ‘Cognovimus ... aliquorum nundinatione fieri ut scholarum magistris deputata summa videatur imminui’.

[697] Prof. xviii.

[698] Prof. xix.

[699] Prof. xvii.

[700] Pro Instaur. Schol. 11.