purveyance
purveyance:
I. Orig. =PROVISION : q. v.
II. The providing of food:
1. obsōnātus, ūs: Pl. Truc. 4, 2, 27; and obsōnātio, f., Don. ad Ter. Andr. 2, 2, 32.
2. emptio, ōnis, f., with annonae, frumenti, etc.
3. annōnae cura: to attend to the p. of food, annonae curam agere, Suet. Cl. 18: cf. duplicem curam administravit annonae, id. Tib. 8.
III. Concrete, the supplies purveyed:
1. obsōnium: make us a princely p., tu facito nobis obsonatum sit opulentum obs., Pl. Bacch. 1, 1, 64.
2. annōna: a sufficient p. of other supplies, an. tolerabilis rerum aliarum, Liv. 35, 44. Also expr. by adj. annonarius; corn and other kinds of p., frumentum ceteraeque annonariae species, Veg. Mil. 3, 3: v.PROVISIONS , SUPPLIES .
I. Orig. =
II. The providing of food:
1. obsōnātus, ūs: Pl. Truc. 4, 2, 27; and obsōnātio, f., Don. ad Ter. Andr. 2, 2, 32.
2. emptio, ōnis, f., with annonae, frumenti, etc.
3. annōnae cura: to attend to the p. of food, annonae curam agere, Suet. Cl. 18: cf. duplicem curam administravit annonae, id. Tib. 8.
III. Concrete, the supplies purveyed:
1. obsōnium: make us a princely p., tu facito nobis obsonatum sit opulentum obs., Pl. Bacch. 1, 1, 64.
2. annōna: a sufficient p. of other supplies, an. tolerabilis rerum aliarum, Liv. 35, 44. Also expr. by adj. annonarius; corn and other kinds of p., frumentum ceteraeque annonariae species, Veg. Mil. 3, 3: v.