in Roman antiquity, was a distribution of corn, provision, cloaths, money, &c. to the people. Gracchus, when tribune, to make himself popular, passed a law for supplying the Roman citizens with corn at a very low rate, out of the public granaries. Claudius, another tribune, with the same views to popular applause, procured it to be distributed gratis.—Cato, to win the common people from Caesar, persuaded the senate to do the same, and 300,000 citizens shared in the distribution. Caesar, after his triumph, extended his bounty to 150,000, giving them each a mina. The Roman emperors enlarged still further the list of those who were to partake of their distributions. Largitio is frequently taken in a bad sense, to signify a masked bribery; whereby candidates purchased votes, when they stood for places of honour or trust in the state. The distribution of money was called congiarium, and the distributors divisors and sequelfrees.