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σῑτ-ώνιον

sitonion · τό

public granary, storehouse

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What it meant

σῑτ-ώνιον · sit-ōnion — LSJ

public granary, storehouse, wheat-fund

public granary, storehouse, or wheat-fund, = σιτωνικόν, IG 14.423 i 37, al. (Tauromenium, ii/i B.C.).

2 money for the purchase of corn, corn-money

money for the purchase of corn, corn-money, as part of a soldierʼs pay, UPZ 14.74 (ii B.C.), PTheb.Bank 6.3, 7.3, al. (ii B.C.).

name of a tax, prob. levied to provide cornmoney, BGU 1846.5 (i B.C.).

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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