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This is part of a very long inscription found at Veleia, recording the financial arrangements made by Trajan for the maintenance of poor children in Italy. This was a policy extensively followed by the emperors of the second century and was probably due not only to philanthropy but to a desire to maintain a shrinking population, and in particular to keep up the supply of recruits for the army. A similar private foundation by Pliny for his native town of Comum is recorded in No. 30.
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Jones, A.H.M. (1970). Economic Affairs. In: Jones, A.H.M. (eds) A History of Rome through the Fifth Century. The Documentary History of Western Civilization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00491-1_13
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