. | Picenum. | 264 | 300 | 6 | 1,800 | 1,125
Aesernia. | Samnium. | 263 | 300 | 6 | 1,800 | 1,125
Brundisium. | Calabria. | 244 | 300 | 6 | 1,800 | 1,125
Spoletium. | Umbria. | 241 | 300 | 6 | 1,800 | 1,125
Cremona. | Gaul. | 218 | 6,000 | 6 | 36,000 | 22,500
Placentia. | " | 218 | 6,000 | 6 | 36,000 | 22,500
Copiae. | Lucania. | 193 | 300 | 6 | 1,800 | 1,125
Bononia. | Gaul. | 192 | 3,000 | 6 | 18,000 | 11,250
Aquileia. | " | 181 | 4,500 | 6 | 27,000 | 16,875
------------+-----------------+--------+-------+---------+---------+-------
Total ...................|226,000 |141,250
Civic Colonies ..........| 38,900 | 30,500
|---------|-------
Grand Total .............|264,900 |171,750
| | or
| | 268.36
| |Sq. Mi.
---------------------------------------------------------+---------+-------

[Footnote 1: I have not here added Roman conquests outside of the peninsula
of Italy, as these conquests were not treated as Roman territory until
nearly a century later.]

SEC. 9.--LATIFUNDIA.

"After having pillaged the world as praetors or consuls during time of war,
the nobles again pillaged their subjects as governors in time of peace;[1]
and upon their return to Rome with immense riches they employed them
in changing the modest heritage of their fathers into domains vast as
provinces. In villas, which they were wont to surround with forests, lakes
and mountains ... where formerly a hundred families lived at ease, a single
one found itself restrained. In order to increase his park, the noble
bought at a small price the farm of an old wounded soldier or peasant
burdened with debt, who hastened to squander, in the taverns of Rome, the
modicum of gold which he had received. Often he took the land without
paying anything.[2] An ancient writer tells us of an unfortunate involved
in a law suit with a rich man because the latter, discommoded by the bees
of the poor man, his nei