Note 058
From Chapter 17 of the Decline & Fall

Sozomen, 1. ii. c. 3. Philostorg. 1. ii. c. 9. Codin. Antiquitat. Const. p. 8 [p. 16, ed. Bonn]. It appears by Socrates, 1. ii. c. 13, that the daily allowance of the city consisted of eight myriads of Ancient Greek, which we may either translate, with Valesius, by the words modii of corn, or consider as expressive of the number of loaves of bread.