Bequests were left to cheapen the main necessaries of life.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
The city treasury must have often incurred a loss in striving to provide corn and oil for the citizens at a limited price, and the authorities were often reviled, as at Trimalchio's banquet, for not doing more to cheapen the necessaries of life.
"Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius"
Samuel Dill
She was straightforward and above board with herself, and she would not cheapen herself in her own eyes.
"From the Housetops"
George Barr McCutcheon