CHAP. 10.
De legibus Agrarijs.
Romanæ historiæ anthologia An English exposition of the Romane antiquities, wherein many Romane and English offices are paralleld and divers obscure phrases explained. By Thomas Godwyn Master of Arts: for the vse of Abingdon Schoole.
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THose laws were tearmed Leges Agrariae, which did concerne the division of the publique or common fields. And these were either given by Romulus and other kings; or taken from the enimies, or from private mē which had made incloasures; or lastly bought out of the common Treasury. Vid.a 1.1 Sigon.
Sempronia lex Agraria.
Titus Sempronius Gracchus Trib. Pleb. preferred a lawe which forbade, that any of the Romanes should haue to his owne part aboue fiue hundred acres of the common fields, the one halfe of which it was lawfull for his sonnes to en∣ioy. If it had so hapned that any should enlarge these com∣mon fields, three surveyers called theb 1.2 Triumviri agro di∣vidundo, did marke out which was common, which private ground. Moreover it was by this lawe provided, that the mony of king Attalus who made the people of Rome his heire, might be bestowed vpon those citizens, which had by this law obtained a part of the common fieldes, to the buying of instruments for husbandry. Moreover, that the kings lands should be farmed out at a set rent by the Cen∣sors, whence an yearely tribute should be paid to the peo∣ple.
Cornelia lex.
L. Cornelius Sylla being Dictator preferred a law, that al the fields of those Romanes which he had banished, should be common. This publication is to be vnderstood chiefly of those fields in Thuscia nere vnto the city Volaterrae, and the city Fesulae,* 1.3 which grounds Sylla divided amongst his souldiers.
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a 1.1
Sig. de iure Ital. l. 2. c. 2. Cic. pro Sext.
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b 1.2
Sig de iure Ital. l. 2. c. 2.
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* 1.3
Cic. in Rullū.