rities and difficulties, arising in part from
insufficiency of historical evidence and in part from the conflicting
statements of the old historians, have been recognized by all writers and
call forth on my part no claim for indulgence.

This monograph is intended as a chapter merely of a history of the public
lands and agrarian laws of Rome, written for the purpose of a future
comparison with the more recent agrarian movements in England and America.

ANDREW STEPHENSON.

MlDDLETOWN, CONN. _May_ 8, 1891.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Sec. 1. LANDED PROPERTY
" 2. QUIRITARIAN OWNERSHIP
" 3. AGER PUBLICUS
" 4. ROMAN COLONIES

CHAPTER II.

Sec. 5. LEX CASSIA
" 6. AGRARIAN MOVEMENTS BETWEEN 486 AND 367
(a) Extension of Territory by conquest up to the year 367 B.C.
(b) Colonies Founded between 454 and 367

Sec. 7. LEX LICINIA
" 8. AGRARIAN MOVEMENTS BETWEEN 367 AND 133
(a) Extension of Territory by conquest between 367 and 133
(b) Colonies Founded between 367 and 133

Sec. 9. LATIFUNDIA
" 10. INFLUENCE OF SLAVERY
" 11. LEX SEMPRONIA TIBERIANA
" 12. LEX SEMPRONIA GAIANA

CHAPTER III.

Sec.13. LEX THORIA
" 14. AGRARIAN MOVEMENTS BETWEEN 111 AND 86
" 15. EFFECT OF THE SULLAN REVOLUTION
" 16. AGRARIAN MOVEMENTS BETWEEN 86 AND 59
" 17. LEX JULIA AGRARIA
" 18. DISTRIBUTION OF LAND AFTER THE CIVIL WAR BETWEEN CAESAR AND POMPEY
" 19. DISTRIBUTIONS FROM THE DEATH OF CAESAR TO THE TIME OF AUGUSTUS
(a) Lex Agraria of Lucius Antonius
(b) Lex de Colonis in Agros Deducendis
(c) Second Triumvirate

PUBLIC LANDS AND AGRARIAN LAWS OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC.

CHAPTER I.

SEC. 1.--LANDED PROPERTY.

The Romans were a people that originally gave their almost exclusive
attention to agriculture and stock-raising. The surnames of the most
illustrious families, as Piso (miller), Porcius (swine-raiser), Lactucinius
(lettuce-raiser), Stolo (a shoot), etc., prove this. To say that a man was
a good farmer was, at one time, to bestow upon him the highest praise.[1]
This character, joined to the spirit of order and private avarice which
in a marked degree distinguished the Romans, has contributed to the
development among them of a civil law which is perhaps the most remarkable
monument which antiquity has left us. This civil code has become the basis
of the law of European peoples, and recommends the civilization of Rome to
the v