Note 88 — Diocletian's Edict and the High Cost of Living
Reading edition
Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, vol. III, pp. 1926-1953. Mommsen's text with a commentary has been published by H. Blümner, in Der Maximaltarif des Diocletian, Berlin, 1893. A brief description of the edict may be found in the Pauly-Wissowa Real-Encyclopadie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft, under "Edictum Diocletiani," and K. Bücher has discussed some points in it in the Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft, vol. L (1894), pp. 189-219 and 672-717.