Note 226 — Chapter XII · EGYPT.
William P. (William Purdie) Dickson translation
Chr. Pasch. p. 514; Procopius, Hist. arc. 26; Gothofred. on Cod. Theod. xiv. 26, 2. Stated distributions of corn had already been instituted earlier in Alexandria, but apparently only for persons old and decayed, and—it may be conjectured—on account of the city, not of the state (Eusebius, Hist. Eccl. vii. 21).