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mountainman · 02-26-2012, 11:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Diogenes the Cynic

....Do we have any data on what kind of system was in place for producing sacrificial lambs.

Your question may cover data on the general meat trade in the empire. Sacrificial animals were also used by the pagans. Although it covers later sources, the chapter Chapter 1.7 Collegia connected with the meat supply and the wine supply from "Trade Guilds of the Latter Roman Empire": Thesis in Economics, 1925 - Freda Utley (1899-1978), may provide some data, or some further information to be researched.

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Section 1 - Meat Deals: Suarii, pecuarii, bourii

In Republican times the butchers formed a collegium presided over by two Magistrates that this collegium is not found later. The mutton merchants associated at Praeneste probably also had a college at Rome but there is no trace of it.
The Digest shows that under the Empire the prefect of the city had to ensure the supply of cheap meat and the purveyors of meat were thus naturally included amongst the privileged merchants useful to the annona. They formed 3 separate collegia:

Boarii - beef dealers
Pecuarii (pequarii) - mutton dealers
Suarii - pork dealers

steve_bnk · 02-27-2012, 10:53 AM

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