Columella Res Rustica 1.3.11

ed. Harrison Boyd Ash, ed. E. S. Forster, ed. Edward H. Heffner

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[11] ac plebeia mensura contentus fuit.Mox etiam cum ¹²³⁴ agrorum vastitatem victoriae nostrae et interneciones hostium fecissent, criminosum tamen senatori fuit supra quinquaginta iugera possedisse, suaque lege C. Licinius damnatus est, quod agri modum, quem in magistratu rogatione tribunicia promulgaverat, immodica possidendi libidine transcendisset, nec magis quia superbum videbatur tantum loci detinere quam quia flagitiosius,⁵quos hostis profugiendo desolasset agros, novo more civem Romanum supra vires patrimonii possidendo deserere.

Res Rustica. Columella. ed. Harrison Boyd Ash, ed. E. S. Forster, ed. Edward H. Heffner. London. 1941-1955.

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Res Rustica. Books I-IX (Columella. On agriculture, Volume 1-2. Ash, Harrison Boyd; Foster, Edward Seymour; Heffner, Edward H., editors. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1941.)

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Res Rustica

1. velint Pontedera, Schneider, Lundstrōm: velit SAR, et alii.

2. plebi Schn.

3. retulere SAR.

4. tanta M'. Lundstrōm, praeeunte Madvigio:tanta vel tantam codd. plerique. a Vergil, Georg. II. 412-413. b Cf. Palladius I. 6. 8, Fecundior est culta exiguitas quam magnitudo neglecta. c The first Roman agrarian law, made by Romulus, allotted to every citizen two iugera of land (Varro, R.R. I. 10. 12; cf. Pliny, N.H. XVIII. 7).For the seven iugera, cf. Varro,

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