Note 392 — Chapter XXI · THE LEGAL POSITION OF THE JEWS IN THE LATER EMPIRE
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The institutio alimentaria commemorated on the marble slabs (anaglypha) in the Forum and by the bronze tablets of Veleia and the Baebiani (C. I. L. ix. 1147; xi. 1455). It had begun with Nerva: puellas puerosque natos parentibus egestosis sumptu publico per Italiae oppida ali iussit (Aur. Vict., Nerva, xii.).