 Their "cure" (care and jurisdiction) included, or came to include, the grain supply ("annona") and later the plebeian grain doles ("frumentationes"), the organisation and management of public games in general, and the maintenance of Rome's streets and public buildings.Otherwise, in Rome and throughout Italy, as at her ancient sanctuaries of Henna and Catena, Ceres' "ritus graecus" and her joint cult with Proserpina were invariably led by female "sacerdotes", drawn from local and Roman elites