caa a22 4500 386376638 CHVBK 20180307112021.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198911 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/632050 doi S0075426900012787 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/632050 Jones C. P. University of Toronto Eastern Alimenta and an Inscription of Attaleia [Elektronische Daten] [C. P. Jones] A characteristic phenomenon of the High Empire, though it is found both earlier and later, is the alimentary scheme, whereby foundations established by emperors or private persons provide a kind of family allowance for the children of free-born but not wealthy parents. Though such schemes may well have had Hellenistic antecedents, the earliest known example is from Julio-Claudian Italy, where T. Helvius Basila, a senator from Atina, leaves 400,000 sesterces to his fellow-citizens ‘ut liberis eorum ex reditu, dum in aetatem pervenirent, frumentum et postea sestertia singula milia darentur'. In the second century, probably beginning with Nerva, alimentary schemes become part of the system of imperial benefactions, and their workings are attested for many cities of Italy by inscriptions and by letters of the younger Pliny. Copyright © The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies 1989 The Journal of Hellenic Studies Cambridge University Press 109(1989-11), 189-191 0075-4269 109<189 1989 109 JHS https://doi.org/10.2307/632050 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/632050 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Jones C. P. University of Toronto NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Hellenic Studies Cambridge University Press 109(1989-11), 189-191 0075-4269 109<189 1989 109 JHS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge