[Meaning a] union of two things. Also the [sc. process of] receiving and doing what is needed.[1]
"He was not ashamed to deprive those on active military service of all their pay."[2]
And Malchus [writes]: "often deprived of their pay and being cut off from their customary food, the soldiers fell into desperation."[3] And elsewhere Malchus [writes]: "he honored Pamprepius brilliantly and gave him a subsidy."[4]
Procopius [writes]: "but at the same time [they were] also finding fault, because the public treasury had owed them their pay for a long time."[5] That is, what was given [to them].