provisioner वाक्य

The Christian Arnobius, writing during Diocletian's reign, attributes financial concerns to provisioners of pagan services : The augurs, the dream interpreters, the soothsayers, the prophets, and the priestlings, ever vain . . . fearing that their own arts be brought to nought, and that they may extort but scanty contributions from the devotees, now few and infrequent, cry aloud,'The gods are neglected, and in the temples there is now a very thin attendance.