From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #11524 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Monday, June 5 2023 Volume 14 : Number 11524 Today's Subjects: ----------------- An EarWax Cleaner that's Safe for Your Ears and the Environment ["Tvidler] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2023 13:41:42 +0200 From: "Tvidler Cleans Ears" Subject: An EarWax Cleaner that's Safe for Your Ears and the Environment An EarWax Cleaner that's Safe for Your Ears and the Environment http://brainc.today/TyL4ugzMl1SVRQmp1kQtNjeENtpTPD7XEGAEp75Qhg6fLEuYUg http://brainc.today/lF9sIz1NYwpY3kO7AJRgYlH-ROaMBrHgxm6mUh7fsDQ9wNKHig Antoninus tried to portray himself as a magistrate of the res publica, no matter how extended and ill-defined his competencies were. He is credited with the splitting of the imperial treasury, the fiscus. This splitting had to do with the division of imperial properties into two parts. Firstly, the fiscus itself, or patrimonium, meaning the properties of the "Crown", the hereditary properties of each succeeding person that sat on the throne, transmitted to his successors in office, regardless of their previous membership in the imperial family. Secondly, the res privata, the "private" properties tied to the personal maintenance of the Emperor and his family, something like a Privy Purse. An anecdote in the Historia Augusta biography, where Antoninus replies to Faustina (who complained about his stinginess) that "we have gained an empire lost even what we had before" possibly relates to Antoninus' actual concerns at the creation of the res privata. While still a private citizen, Antoninus had increased his personal fortune greatly by mean of various legacies, the consequence of his caring scrupulously for his relatives. Also, Antoninus left behind him a reputation for stinginess and was probably determined not to leave his personal property to be "swallowed up by the demands of the imperial throne". The res privata lands could be sold and/or given away, while the patrimonium properties were regarded as public. It was a way of pretending that the Imperial functionband most properties attached to itbwas a public one, formally subject to the authority of the Senate and the Roman peo ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #11524 ***********************************************