Machivael's [sic] discourses upon the first decade of T. Livius, translated out of the Italian. To which is added his Prince. With some marginal animadversions noting and taxing his errors. By E.D.

CHAP. VII.

How much land the Romans allowed to each man they sent out to inhabit their Colonies.

BY what parcels the Romans did divide the land among them, I beleeve it is hard to find out the truth, because I think they bestow'd on them more or less, according to the places, whether they sent the Colonies; and it is credi∣ble, howsoever the case went, and whether so∣ever they were sent, the allowance was but small. First to the end they might be able to send the more men thither, they being in∣trusted with the guard of that countrey. Be∣sides, because they living sparingly at home, it agrees not with reason, that they would allow their men, where wishall to abound much a∣broad And Titus Livius sayes, that, * 1.1 when they had taken Veium, they sent a Colony thither, and to each man they gave three acres and a half and a twelfth part. For besides the things above written, they judge it was not the quantity of the land that suppli'd their wants, but the well c••••tia∣ting of it. And moreover it is very necessary,

that the whole Colony have fields in common, were every one may freely feed his cattel, and woods from whence to fetch fuell for firing, without which a Colony cannot well subfist.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Terna jugera & sep∣tunnces viritim divi∣se••ant