The Prices Edict

The Prices Edict is the longest and most ambitious of surviving tetrarchic legislative measures. As such, it merits a chapter to itself, though it should also be seen in the context of other pronouncements. This chapter sets out to answer various questions: why was it issued, how was it compiled, where was it enforced? These all reflect upon the attitudes and effectiveness of the government In the midst of his fierce attack on the misrule of Diocletian, Lactantius gives the following account of a price-fixing measure

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