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Viatĭcum

ἐφόδιον). Anything necessary as a preparation for a journey, as food, money, clothes, etc. (Pliny , Epist. vii. 12). It is also technically applied to the provision made by the State for an official when going upon a public mission (also called legativum), generally furnished by contractors (redemptores) for a fixed sum (Livy , xli. 1; Dio Cass. liii. 15). See Mommsen, Röm. Staatsrecht, i. 301.

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